Obama does Lincoln: Why doesn't he just grow a beard and buy a top hat?

What struck me most
about the president's speech is not that he plans to cut the American presence
in Afghanistan but that he committed us to staying there for several more
years.

And again,
the Lincolnesque rhetoric.

Obama last night:

"Now, let us
finish the work at hand. Let us responsibly end these wars, and reclaim the
American Dream that is at the center of our story. With confidence in our
cause; with faith in our fellow citizens; and with hope in our hearts, let us
go about the work of extending the promise of America -- for this generation,
and the next."

Lincoln in 1865:

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with
firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to
finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who
shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which
may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all
nations."

(HT to RF)