Reagan made himself a national figure with the 1964 speech, but he was also governor of the largest state for 8 years.
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Dan, I think Benjy is talking about Obama....the liberal left has undertaken a deeply researched, informed history of US conservatism. Conservatives learn about conservatism from it. How's the analogue project going on your side?
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I know he was referring to Obama. Who was, of course, no Lincoln by any stretch, least of all the content of his arguments. I wrote many times back then about the absurdity of his efforts to claim that parallel.
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Um--why the gratuitous, utterly off point slam? Nobody said he was Lincoln--least of all him. He admired Lincoln, like many US presidents, but, unlike many of them, had also deeply read him. Also if you don't understand Obama's project of civic nationalism you can't really
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attack it. I wrote this in 2008 about just that, and it still stands up. You might learn, at least, what you so intensely dislike and why:https://prospect.org/article/obama-s-usable-past/ …
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I'm not even a big fan of the "actually existing" Obama presidency--from the left of it, it failed in several ways, as his own memoir makes clear. But you haven't even earned the right to rip it if you don't get what he was up to and why.
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I guess I'd say to you: you and other modern conservative intellectuals oppose "civic nationalism" don't you? It'd be interesting if you would explicitly express that in an essay. So you diminish Obama without really substantively engaging him--which is intellectually unserious.
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I don't have time for yet another of these all-day off-the-original-topic arguments, but you're either forgetting or deliberately glossing over the point I was talking about, which is the Obama-personally-as-Lincoln stuff from 2007-09.
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https://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/obamas-lincoln-delusion-092314 … https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/11/us/politics/11obama.html … https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-leadership/for-obama-where-has-lincoln-gone/2012/11/09/b351935a-29eb-11e2-96b6-8e6a7524553f_story.html … https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-obama-lincoln-parallel-a-closer-look/ … http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,1816476,00.html … https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2008/11/20/the-comparisons-between-barack-obama-and-abraham-lincoln … https://www.aarp.org/politics-society/government-elections/info-01-2009/aarp_radio__lincoln.html … https://www.masslive.com/living/2012/12/doris_kearns_goodwin_reflects_on_obamas_team_of_rivals_writing_about_linncoln_importance_of_historia.html … https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mr-obamas-team-of-rivals/ …https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2008/nov/18/obama-clinton-team-of-rivals …
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So you found an article, which I will try to read. That doesn’t change my point about *what Obama himself had in mind.* Which you slammed as being lousy “content” without saying what that content was!
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Ten articles in 30 seconds, plus others that didn't fit.
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You’re not getting my point: that’s other people writing *about* Obama. What do you think Obama thought he was doing himself? What is the “content” about which you allude to?
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