28-Plastic Lincoln

     The plastic Lincoln never makes mistakes, never has a cross word and never, never passes gas.  He is the original Marble Man.   The museum in Springfield portrays the quintessential plastic Lincoln.  All his words are good, righteous and true.  All his detractors speak from the dark side.  If the plastic Lincoln is successful, we might also be covered in plastic.  We might enter a two-dimensional world where all decisions are easy and obvious. 

     The 'historic' Lincoln beats the 'plastic' Lincoln hands down.  He is found a mile south, on 8th Street, in the only home he ever owned. The historic Lincoln is incomplete, totally human and very shrewd.  You can imagine him rising in the morning and shaving in his little wall mirror, set to his 6'4" frame.  You can see him on the floor of his family room wrestling with his sons.  You can eavesdrop on the strategy talks in his front room.

     I choose history over Hollywood, wall mirrors over marble giants and outhouses over massive memorials!

                Mr. Lincoln's Outhouse