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Chris Matthews: Obama Second Inaugural Akin to Gettysburg Address
The National Review ^ | January 21, 2013 | Eliana Johnson

Posted on 01/21/2013 4:58:43 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Barack Obama is perhaps the only modern president who has had the burden of swatting away comparisons between his own soaring rhetoric and that of our 16th president. You may recall that, in the wake of the Newtown massacre, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter David Maraniss gushed over the president’s remarks, writing, “People will long remember what Barack Obama said in Newtown,” and calling the speech “[Obama's] Gettysburg address.”

Today, thanks to MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, it took less than five minutes for the comparison to be drawn between President Obama’s second inaugural address and, well, all manner of things Lincoln. “It reminds me of another second inaugural, Lincoln’s, so much of Lincoln in that speech, from the Gettysburg Address to the second inaugural itself,” Matthews said...

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TOPICS: History; Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: bhoinauguration; bhospeech; chrismatthews; inaugural; obama; television
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They make me ill.
1 posted on 01/21/2013 4:58:46 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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I wonder if he wears a Foley catheter to these events to keep from wetting his pants.


2 posted on 01/21/2013 5:01:37 PM PST by basil (basil)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It sounds like Chrissy’s “tingle” is acting up again. Go take care of that Chrissy.


3 posted on 01/21/2013 5:03:17 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (If it saves just one senior citizen's life, the fight against ObamaCare will have been worth it.)
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4 posted on 01/21/2013 5:03:42 PM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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He was going to say this no matter what. It’s his calling.

Pray for America


5 posted on 01/21/2013 5:04:20 PM PST by bray (Welcome to Obamaville)
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6 posted on 01/21/2013 5:04:57 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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Barry and his zombie followers want Barry to be Abraham Lincoln REALLY bad. The trouble is, Lincoln never threw the race card when he was challenged. I can’t say that about the Kenyan pimp.


7 posted on 01/21/2013 5:05:17 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (If it saves just one senior citizen's life, the fight against ObamaCare will have been worth it.)
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Matthews doesn't have a brain or a place to put one.

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."

8 posted on 01/21/2013 5:05:41 PM PST by Viking2002
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

More like a “Get-me’s-berg” Address ...


9 posted on 01/21/2013 5:07:51 PM PST by mikrofon (NObama)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is obama Abraham Lincoln or Jesus Christ???? I’m SOOOOO confused.


10 posted on 01/21/2013 5:08:47 PM PST by bigheadfred
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Right now I’m imagining Chrissy in a Hitler Youth smock, with tight braids and a bouquet of flowers he’s holding for Obama ....

Wish I had Photoshop.


11 posted on 01/21/2013 5:10:54 PM PST by LibsRJerks
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If he lost one of his brain cells the other one would die from loneliness. Just say’n


12 posted on 01/21/2013 5:11:19 PM PST by doc1019
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He’s above such trifling figures. He is Obama.

The alpha and the Omega. That is all you need know...


14 posted on 01/21/2013 5:17:46 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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15 posted on 01/21/2013 5:21:58 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: Norm Lenhart

You mean he is the black Lady Gaga???


16 posted on 01/21/2013 5:23:49 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Minority children are born way, way too often into violent inner city neighborhoods that rob them of their innocence, and fail to nurture them and allow them to develop naturally in a safe environment. It happens each and every day, and with every breath morons like Matthews take. It is a travesty, and continues to be ignored by those whose world view is limited by their sophomoric college sociology perspective.

Obama has done absolutely nothing to help stop violence in the inner city, provide a safe environment for the children of the inner city, and address the social issues that contribute to the perpetuation of generation upon generation of minorities settling for lives that are dramatically less than they deserve and can achieve on their own, without Obama, you, or me.

Obama has followed his inner anger, and acted on the basis of his strongly held and misinformed ideology, but has ignored the great issues of his day. Chris, it's not too late for you to get a clue. Right now you have none, and in as much as you have a soap box you are hurting minorities, significantly. You are in some ways worse than a Klansman, because your robes are not as overtly recognizable as racist. Your words and your actions, however, are almost as hurtful as the Klan ever was. Think Chris. Think.

17 posted on 01/21/2013 5:25:07 PM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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18 posted on 01/21/2013 5:26:24 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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Well I hope his life imitates Lincolns—to the bitter end


19 posted on 01/21/2013 5:29:14 PM PST by funfan
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I thought it sounded like Daffy Duck—at his worst.


20 posted on 01/21/2013 5:31:33 PM PST by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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