In this clip from Lawrence O’Donnell’s Last Word, President Obama explains his centrist ways to a group of school kids and takes Clintonian-type rationalizations to bizarre configurations by saying, in essence, that he’s Lincoln, compromising on the issue of slavery in the The Emancipation Proclamation to “win the war and to maintain the Union.” Seriously. Watch.

(Psst, Mr. President…Lincoln effectively split the country and drove it to war over the issue of slavery and, in the process, transformed us from a reprobate nation).

Now it’s possible that I may be under-appreciating the great transformational accomplishments of saving the banking industry and giving everyone the right to buy health insurance and compelling them to do so but, either way, this can beg only one question: is this dude losin’ it?