@RichLowry: President Obama Wants to Own Lincoln!
Rich Lowry, author of Lincoln Unbound: How an Ambitious Young Railsplitter Saved the American Dream – and How We Can Do It Again, talked to Brian about his new book and how President Obama is misconstruing Lincoln’s legacy and his actions as president for his own good.
“I wrote this book because I’m really drawn to the Lincoln of opportunity and aspiration, which is so important to his life, so important to his politics, and his policies; it was really everything,” Lowry explained. He went on to say that President Obama “wants to own Lincoln.” The reality of the situation, Lowry explained, is very different. “The government was very different: We didn’t have a welfare state, we weren’t redistributing money from one person to another, and the government wasn’t regulating the heck out of things and making it impossible for people to build.”
