He Hasn’t Compared Himself to Washington at Valley Forge Yet

7:06 pm, 11/6/07

"Speaking of analogies, which of these self-aggrandizing comparisons do you find the most absurd/offensive/apt?" asks the Chicago Tribune's Eric Zorn:

I take (the Tribune editorial suggesting voters in Illinois be allowed to recall their governor) as a very good sign. I have gone a long way being for the things I'm for and being against things the Tribune's for. And I am in good company. Franklin Roosevelt, who gave us Social Security, who led America out of the Great Depression, who led America victoriously through World War II, received more than a thousand negative editorials from the Chicago Tribune. More than a thousand! And in one editorial, the Chicago Tribune compared Franklin Roosevelt to Mussolini, Stalin and Adolf Hitler. When you compare me to Franklin Roosevelt, I think they're going easy on me - Gov. Rod Blagojevich

It would at this time venture to read out an excerpt of President Abraham Lincoln especially to all my listeners in United States. As an idealist, Abraham Lincoln had one consuming passion during the time of supreme crisis and this was to preserve the Union because the Union was in danger. Towards that end, he broke laws, he violated the Constitution, he usurped arbitrary power, he trampled individual liberties...We are also learning democracy...I look at this from this point of view... - Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf

Well, Blagojevich already said that Jesus backed his healthcare plan (comparing his monstrous tax proposal to the Battle of Armageddon in an irony that was doubtlessly lost on him) and compared himself to Abraham Lincoln.

"Look, I'm modest. You want me to pat myself on the back? I'm not going to do that...Not every military initiative from the Union Army was successful. It took a while to kind of get that together and get it right. But the whole purpose of what they were trying to do was absolutely right, keeping the country together and then emancipating the slaves and providing freedom to millions and millions of people."

Modest.

Obviously, he couldn't just go back and use Lincoln again. I wonder if he's considered invoking Huey Long?