Staying Humble

Mickey Kaus catches a real whopper from everybody's hero Barack Obama:

"In Lincoln's rise from poverty, his ultimate mastery of language and law, his capacity to overcome personal loss and remain determined in the face of repeated defeat - in all this, he reminded me not just of my own struggles ..."

Kaus writes:

Not just of his own struggles. ... Good to see Obama retaining his essential modesty. The danger for someone in his position is that he might let it go to his head!

There are lessons here on several levels about hero worship.