Then there was also his shrill voice. He wouldn’t make in it an American Idol presidency. But even in his day, it looks like he fought the media (from Abraham Lincoln Online):
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News reports in Lincoln’s time were heavily influenced by political parties. Compare these opposite reactions to the same speech Lincoln gave in Monmouth, Illinois, on October 11, 1858:
Of his speech I will only say that it lasted three hours, and that during all that time the whole audience seemed perfectly wrapt in attention, and that in power, pathos, and eloquence, I have never heard it equalled.
–Chicago (Illinois) Press & Tribune, October 15, 1858
His whole speech was a personal attack on Douglas and Democrats. He dodged the issues before the people, and failed entirely to discuss the principles dividing the two parties. It was not marked by the “abilities of a Statesman, or the dignity of a would be Senator,” and was coldly received by the small crowd present.
–Monmouth (Illinois) Review, October 15, 1858
Then there was also his shrill voice. He wouldn’t make in it an American Idol presidency. But even in his day, it looks like he fought the media (from Abraham Lincoln Online):
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News reports in Lincoln’s time were heavily influenced by political parties. Compare these opposite reactions to the same speech Lincoln gave in Monmouth, Illinois, on October 11, 1858:
Of his speech I will only say that it lasted three hours, and that during all that time the whole audience seemed perfectly wrapt in attention, and that in power, pathos, and eloquence, I have never heard it equalled.
–Chicago (Illinois) Press & Tribune, October 15, 1858
His whole speech was a personal attack on Douglas and Democrats. He dodged the issues before the people, and failed entirely to discuss the principles dividing the two parties. It was not marked by the “abilities of a Statesman, or the dignity of a would be Senator,” and was coldly received by the small crowd present.
–Monmouth (Illinois) Review, October 15, 1858
the guy is dead and hes still better than these clowns we have now
Don’t forget to criticize his race and his political party…
I think there would be some raised eyebrows about the fact that he’s two hundred years old too.
No man with a beard would ever be elected President today.
All true…sadly.
Ha, thanks Revrick!
these days, we demand perfection…anything less and its tea-party time.
yeah yeah, instead we have a media that ignores bill ayers, ignores acorn, ignores the total lack of experience, ignores rev wright.