would lincoln have done leno?

When I came across this passage about President-elect Lincoln (in a biography of Charles Francis Adams), I was reminded of some recent criticisms of Obama:

Adams regretted Lincoln's utterances on two counts. First, they instilled doubt as to the president-elect's capacities; it was possible that Lincoln might yet prove true and energetic, but his speeches had "put flight to all notions of greatness." "They betray a person," Adams wrote in his diary, "unconscious of his own position as well as of the nature of the contest around him. Good-natured, kindly, honest, but frivolous and uncertain."

He turned out OK in the end, I believe.