Compare and contrast these presidential moments

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A friend reminded me of this today.

Abraham Lincoln to Lydia Bixby:

Dear Madam: I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

Yours very sincerely and respectfully,

Abraham Lincoln.

George Bush to Cindy Sheehan:

It's important for me to go on with my life.

[BOSSHOG]

1. And Clinton met with the families of those killed in Somalia

and got his ass verbally kicked by an irate father; and big dog took it like a man.

Love your Maine License Plate!

[mcscajun]

2. Excellent Juxtapositioning there....

We've known all along that Bush was a small, small, man.

He continues to prove it with every passing day.

[wli]

3. Jesus' commentary on the BFEE is probably something like John 8:44 n/t