eloquence and humor
Lincoln: "[you got me elected?] ... I forgive you"
Obama: "to those of you who brought me here ... we're takin' names"
this made me laugh the way I laughed the other day when Michelle Obama, told by a young girl that she wanted to grow up and be First Lady, replied "It doesn't pay very well"
also: the strange synchronicity of Lincoln and Darwin born on the same day 1809 ... Shakespeare and Cervantes dying on the same day 1616 ...
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Stanley Fish on Obama's Prose style -- parataxis, incantation
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