Lincoln Versus Obama

I found this passage from William Miller's book "Lincoln's Virtues" interesting, thinking about our current president.

"Abraham Lincoln is unusual, perhaps unique, in that while being nominated entirely out of a political background, he had no national experience except that now ancient one term in Congress, no statewide victories at all, no executive experience at all, no appointments to high-level positions at all. Alongside the political resumes of his immediate predecessor, James Buchanan, his longtime adversary Stephen Douglas, or his chief rival for the nomination in 1860, William Seward, Abraham Lincoln's list of posts and accomplishments would look ridiculously puny. His credentials were markedly less impressive, on paper, than those of any of the men being mentioned for the Republican nomination in addition to Seward... Lincoln had not been governor of a big state, a senator, or a celebrated general in a war; he had not been a Supreme Court justice; he had not been the visible head of any great national undertaking. I believe it can be said that by the formal test of offices held and great deeds accomplished, he was the least qualified person ever elected, perhaps ever nominated by a major party."