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HE is a lawyer from Illinois. He has served in the state legislature, then briefly in Congress, where he has made a name for himself by opposing an unpopular war. He is lanky and eloquent and . . .

So goes the Obama-turns-out-to-be-just-like-Lincoln riff, which we’ve been hearing so much of lately. Vote for Obama and we’ll get Lincoln, say commentators like Ken Burns, who thinks Obama’s “moral courage” and “unironic posture” make him Lincolnesque.