The article is lengthy, but it touches on several things said last night that are either distortions of fact or downright erroneous. I'll say this about him. He has an exceptional gift for oratory, which is what originally drew him into the national spotlight. If you like him and are not concerned with reality, you love him after his populist-oriented speeches. Last night was no exception. Fact Check
Obama Misquotes Lincoln During SOTU… and quite deliberately. Via Human Events: During his State of the Union speech on Tuesday night, President Obama quoted Abraham Lincoln as follows: I’m a Democrat. But I believe what Republican Abraham Lincoln believed: That Government should do for people only what they cannot do better by themselves, and no more. That’s why my education reform offers more competition, and more control for schools and States. That’s why we’re getting rid of regulations that don’t work. That’s why our health care law relies on a reformed private market, not a Government program. Leaving aside the tortured logic of describing a government takeover of health insurance, with the practical effect (and secret ultimate goal) of driving private companies out of the industry altogether, as “a reformed private market,” or a top-down federally controlled public education system as containing any meaningful amount of “competition,” Obama is deliberately misquoting Lincoln, in a way that completely changes the meaning of what the Great Emancipator said. Here is what Lincoln actually said: The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do, for themselves in their separate and individual capacities.