Here it is again. I made, as I’m sure Spielberg is doing in this film, a comparison between Lincoln and his times, and Obama and his.

I’m struck by the parallels between him and his role model, Abraham Lincoln.

Lincoln also was presiding over a bitterly divided country undergoing a terrible crisis, facing a determined, ruthless opposition that publicly insulted and ridiculed him, doing everything they could to humiliate and obstruct his policies. He also succeeded in re-election to a second term because of a majority of the American people’s faith in him.

“Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the Nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came.”
–Abraham Lincoln