This detail of an image provided Thursday, June 18, 2009 by Chicago's Abraham Lincoln Book Shop Inc. shows part of an Aug. 1863 glass plate negative of President Abraham Lincoln at a portrait studio in Washington, D.C. The photo shows a house fly on Lincoln's trouser leg just left and below his right knee. It proves that President Barack Obama, who swatted and killed a fly during an interview Tuesday, isn't the only president to have had an encounter with a fly.
(AP Photo/Abraham Lincoln Book Shop Inc.)


Like Obama, Lincoln had run-in with a fly

By DON BABWIN, Associated Press Writer Don Babwin, Associated Press Writer – 2 hrs 25 mins ago

CHICAGO – President Obama launched his campaign from Abraham Lincoln's hometown, used his Bible to be sworn in and quotes Lincoln at the drop of a stovepipe hat.

Now it seems the two share something else: an encounter with a fly.

Daniel Weinberg, the owner of the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop in Chicago, has a photograph of Lincoln with a house fly on him.

Weinberg doesn't know if the fly survived the encounter or if it suffered the same fate as the one that had the audacity to land on Obama during a television interview Tuesday and found itself on the business end of a presidential hand.

But Weinberg joked that Lincoln likely let the fly live, something that would have pleased the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which announced it was sending Obama a contraption that traps but does not kill bugs.

"He was the great pardoner," pointed out Weinberg.

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This image provided Thursday, June 18, 2009 by Chicago's Abraham Lincoln Book Shop Inc. shows an image made from an Aug. 1863 glass plate negative of President Abraham Lincoln at a portrait studio in Washington, D.C. The photo shows Lincoln with a house fly on his trouser leg just left and below his right knee. The photo proves that President Barack Obama, who swatted and killed a fly during an interview Tuesday, isn't the only president to have had an encounter with a fly.
(AP Photo/Abraham Lincoln Book Shop Inc.)