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This is great:

Opinion Journal - Conceit of Government: Why are our politicians so full of themselves? By Peggy Noonan

Especially:

Oh. So that’s what Lincoln’s for. Actually Lincoln’s life is a lot like Mr. Obama’s. Lincoln came from a lean-to in the backwoods. His mother died when he was 9. The Lincolns had no money, no standing. Lincoln educated himself, reading law on his own, working as a field hand, a store clerk and a raft hand on the Mississippi. He also split some rails. He entered politics, knew more defeat than victory, and went on to lead the nation through its greatest trauma, the Civil War, and past its greatest sin, slavery.

Barack Obama, the son of two University of Hawaii students, went to Columbia and Harvard Law after attending a private academy that taught the children of the Hawaiian royal family. He made his name in politics as an aggressive Chicago vote hustler in Bill Clinton’s first campaign for the presidency.

You see the similarities.

Ah, I hate politicians. I love it when their sanctimonious big bubbles o’ condescension is burst and relieved of a little of their hot air. Read the whole thing, with special attention to a very good second paragraph.

Btw, has anyone else noticed that the biggest blowhards in the Senate are from the smallest states? Napoleonic complex?