There they go again

Barack Obama gives what amounts to the only rational speech on the Arizona tragedy given by any major Democrat (and then only after he realized that the politics had gone badly against them) and Professor Garry Wills gushes "Lincolnesque".  It is this sophomoric conflation of a mediocre Chauncy Gardener with Abraham Lincoln that got him into office and us into this mess in the first place.  The academic left has lost its mind.  Hat tip contentions.

During the 2008 campaign, the historian Garry Wills compared Barack Obama’s Philadelphia speech on race with Abraham Lincoln’s Cooper Union address. Now he’s back at it, though he’s raising the bar a bit higher.

As both Alana and Rick have pointed out, according to Wills, President Obama’s Tucson speech “bears comparison with two Lincoln speeches even greater than the Copper Union address” — Gettysburg and Lincoln’s Second Inaugural address.

Actually, it doesn’t.

I thought the president’s speech was a very good one. But the gushing Professor Wills really does need to get a grip on himself.