All this talk about Obama being Lincoln is getting downright troubling – either our new president’s contracted a bad case of idol worship, or this is a ploy to wrap himself in the cloak of Lincoln because he’s gotten into the business of presidential myth-making even before he’s taken the oath of office.

I don’t know which is more troubling.

From television, I know a lot of people are swooning over Obama-as-Lincoln – but, in fact, isn’t Obama starting his presidency with a fiction? And does that bode well for the future?

After all, President Bush demonstrated political sophistry is all but useless if the ship of state runs aground, and the idea of President Obama sitting in the Oval Office with the idea he’s Abraham Lincoln – well, unfortunately, that could turn out to be more risky than, say, putting Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky in the same room.

Obama’s got a great story to tell of his own and he ought to stick to it. He’s got two great gifts a president needs: Articulation and intelligence. But is he also tough as nails (which is a vital piece of presidential chemistry) or an empty shirt?

This Obama being Lincoln stuff sounds a little marshmallowy.

Can you imagine a real tough guy – like John Wayne – going around telling folks he’s George Washington or Abraham Lincoln – even before he takes office?

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