Politico features its second article in two weeks shooting down the notion that Obama and Abraham Lincoln have a lot in common, this time penned by -- or I should say, attributed to -- the editor-in-chief himself. It seems the publication has a obsession with heavily reported pieces decrying comparisons between the Great Emancipator and the Great [Insert Future Accomplishment Here]. One wonders if they have enough material to sustain this rate, or if they'll switch to the increasingly relevant "Barack Obama is not Franklin Roosevelt" genre.
UPDATE: Via Ta-Nehisi, here's a third Lincoln-related story from Politico published in November; it's an interview with historian Doris Kearns Goodwin about the (please may it be forgotten forever) "Team of Rivals" meme. That's three in the last month ...
--Tim Fernholz
