Sprezzatura asked me to pass along that he/she/it’s pissed at Lee Siegel. Lee used him/her/it so sordidly, and now he never calls or writes. Sprezzatura said fuck that guy!

Why should the president drawing on a great American figure like Abraham Lincoln be a cause for concern? It should worry us because you can admire Lincoln’s achievement in freeing the slaves and keeping the Union together, but also be horrified by his bloodlust in doing so, and his sense of himself as a biblical hero,

What.

The.

Fuck?

Who the hell decided that Lee Siegel has anything worthwhile to say about anything?

I’m surprised Seigel wasn’t hospitalized after writing that. The strain of trying to mash the speech into something objectionable would have killed any other man.

Gotta, wonder, though, if there was anything Obama could have said that wouldn’t have drawn such a reaction from Seigel. (Eh, why wonder when we know the answer is, “No.”)

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

…but also be horrified by his bloodlust…

Let me second… WTF? Sounds like Mr. Seigel was so traumatized by his short lived flame war with the blogofascists that he extended creative reality to things other than lauding himself. Oh, wait, he always did that – never mind.

If Jamie Kirchick is the mini-Peretz, does that make Siegel the mini-Weasel[tier]?

“Apocalyptic language”?

Seriously?

That’s…that’s…I can’t get my brain around it because to do so would infect it with stupid.

Except for freeing the slaves, George W. Bush was a veritable Lincoln-esque President

The same people who decided that Amy Siskind had anything worthwhile to say about anything.

The Daily Beast has really poor judgment about pretty much everything.

Lincoln’s … bloodlust?

Words fail me.

He must be auditioning to work for Neo-Con (as in Neo-Confederate) Robert Stacy McCain at the Moonie Times. Oh, wait — he’s about two years too late for that.

Yeesh: I made the mistake of reading some of the commenters over there – pretty much the extremes – RW trolls dragging in whatever lie they could about Obama; the rest reacting to Siegel much as we are.

Amazing.

Ditto!