In Lincoln's Shadow

Michael Cohen of the New America Foundation, a non-partisan think tank, writes about the influence of President Lincoln on President-elect Obama. He believes that Obama, whose favorite president is Lincoln, has loftier aspirations than even the fixing the economy or foreign policy issues, but that his over-arching purpose is to "bring the country together and end the partisan divisions that have defined not just the past eight years, or the past 16 years, but in fact the past four decades of American politics."

http://www.newamerica.net/publications/articles/2008/lincolns_shadow_8334