There’s an old Peanuts comic strip which shows Snoopy on the top of his dog house making several severe or angry looking faces—in one panel after the other. In the last panel I have changed some of Snoopy’s words in his thought bubble to say: “I would have made a good presidential nominee candidate!”

I sometimes wonder if any of our current presidential nominee candidates remember the quote ascribed to Abraham Lincoln. One day an old friend of President Lincoln, one who had lived as a neighbor of his in Springfield was visiting Abe in the White House.

“How does it feel to be President of the United States?” the friend asked.

“You have heard,” said Lincoln, “about the man tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail? A man in the crowd asked him how he liked it, and his reply was that, if it wasn’t for the honor of the thing, he would rather walk!” –From “Abraham Lincoln: The War Years” by Carl Sandburg, 1939.