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Thursday, November 20, 2008
Jon Meachem Draws Obama-Lincoln-Jackson Parallel

imageHere’s Jon Meacham, managing editor of Newsweek and author of American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House on last night’s Hannity & Colmes:

MEACHAM: My view, and I have not drunk the Obama Kool-Aid, despite what Sean might think…

HANNITY: I didn’t accuse you.

MEACHAM: I know. I think that we probably are going to see a centrist administration because, and this is a slightly specialized theory, remember, Obama is a writer. He’s a storyteller. He’s a maker of myths.

COLMES: Like Lincoln.

MEACHAM: Well, like Lincoln, like others, like great politicians, like Andrew Jackson. I think he wants the story to end well. And I believe, and I’ve been criticized for it recently — I believe we are fundamentally a center right nation.

COLMES: Oh, come on. This election would have disproved that.

HANNITY: By the way, I think you’re right.

COLMES: Where people stand on health care, where they stand on education, where they are on a whole range of things.

MEACHAM: You have a Democratic president running who does not want to mandate universal health care. The rest is commentary.

COLMES: Well, he wants — doesn’t want to mandate it, but he wants to have health care, the government to compete with private, insure 47 million people. That’s not center right.

MEACHAM: I just think that — I think we’re going to have a centrist administration.

Read more and watch the video of the segment.

Meacham will be joined by the Aspen Institute’s Walter Isaacson, former Chairman/CEO of CNN and managing editor of Time, at the Y on Nov 23 to discuss how Andrew Jackson’s pivotal years in the White House shaped the modern presidency.



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