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North Korea Barack Obama was once described as a latter-day
Lincoln; I was at his first inaugural and the comparison was
regularly heard. His original election campaign was replete with
Lincolnesque references, beginning with his 2007 campaign
launch, which he did against the backdrop of the Old State
Capitol in Springfield, Ill., where Lincoln’s political career
began. Yet now, in the aftermath of the embarrassment of the
“fiscal-cliff” negotiations, the invocations of a new Lincoln
are more difficult to sustain. While Obama was credited with
winning this round in America’s farcical fiscal negotiations,
the fact that a comfortably re-elected President was reduced to
such last-minute maneuvering does not bode well for American
leadership in the years ahead. The President may console himself
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