Congressional Representative Barack Obama made a comment that he is like Abraham Lincoln. We hope he is not talking about the "real" Abraham Lincoln, the man not alive to defend himself from this yuppie African-American that seems so full of himself.

Peggy Noonan, from an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, reports Barack Obama is the son of two University of Hawaii students and went to Columbia and Harvard Law after attending a private academy that taught the children of the Hawaiian royal family. He made his name in politics as an aggressive Chicago vote hustler in Bill Clinton's first campaign for the presidency.

Barack sounds more like an African-American yuppie comparing himself to one of America's greatest presidents. On the life of Abraham Lincoln, on the other hand, Noonan writes,

"Lincoln came from a lean-to in the backwoods. His mother died when he was 9. The Lincolns had no money, no standing. Lincoln educated himself, reading law on his own, working as a field hand, a store clerk and a raft hand on the Mississippi. He also split some rails. He entered politics, knew more defeat than victory, and went on to lead the nation through its greatest trauma, the Civil War, and past its greatest sin, slavery."

See original story, Politicians Today are so Full of Themselves, by Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal.