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March 31, 2010
Obama and Wilson
By David Pietrusza
Barack Obama has been
compared to Lincoln, FDR, Teddy Roosevelt, and JFK, among others. But
few have noted his interesting parallels with Woodrow Wilson
.
Historical comparisons have their limits. But Wilson-Obama similarities
abound, starting with both men's use of the label "progressive."
Wilson
was no "community organizer," but like Obama, he was an academic --
among the most prominent political scientists of his day. No other two
presidents hang their pre-White House careers so much on academic curriculum vitae. Both then augmented their nascent careers by authorship: Wilson by a treatise on congressional government, and Obama -- an individual perhaps even more self-absorbed than the imperious Wilson -- with a bestselling memoir.
Here the comparisons diverge: Wilson spends key years as president of Princeton, while Obama sojourns in the Illinois State Senate,
voting present. But both then achieve statewide office in states in
which they not raised: Virginia-born Wilson as governor of New Jersey,
Hawaii-born Obama as a United States senator from Illinois. Both
succeed Republican incumbents. Both serve just two years before making
their move for the presidency.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/obama_and_wilson.html