yes, there's a new shirt. I was inspired by something Obama said about Lincoln recently, so I created this continuation of the Obama in presidential company theme.
it's on cafepress at...... www.cafepress.com/ObamaandLincoln
April 03, 2008
Obama/ Lincoln shirt
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There's a good article from the Free Lance-Star last February comparing Obama's experience to Lincoln's
http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2008/022008/02172008/353377
I picture a supporter of William Seward, the senator from New York and odds-on favorite to the win the 1860 Republican presidential nomination, sputtering in exasperation at the upstart from Illinois who suddenly appeared to be taking the nomination away from his candidate. "Who is this guy?" "What has he done?" "He is a talker, not a doer." In the run-up to the Chicago convention in May 1860, Seward had seemed inevitable--but then came this speech-making interloper, gathering up delegates.
Seward would be ready to be president from Day One, this supporter might say, implying that the Illinois fellow would not be ready on Day One.
"What experience does he have?" the Seward supporter might have asked. How paltry, compared to Seward, were the qualifications of his Illinois opponent: Seward had more than 35 years of experience--as lawyer for fugitive slaves, governor of New York, senator from New York, leader first of the Whigs and then of the Republicans nationally. This novice who challenged him had never held any high office, nor done any great deed, headed any department or passed any national legislation. He had never been in command of anything except a straggling company of volunteers in the state militia when he was 23--a group who, it was reported, when he issued his first command told him to go to hell. He had served six years in the Illinois state legislature. His only service in national government had been one short and unimpressive term as a congressman 11 years earlier. He had not been the "executive" of anything more than a two-man law firm; he had never in his life fired anyone. He had emerged on the national scene just by making speeches.[...]
Presidential company! Can we get some beards in there, like Chester A. Arthur?
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