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So Help Me God: What all fifty-four inaugural addresses tell us about American history
The American Scholar ^ | Winter 2005 | Ted Widmer

Posted on 01/20/2009 3:58:55 AM PST by billorites

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To: billorites

Okay, it is a good article. I suppose I could read five hundred pages of Presidential speeches if I got to do it all by myself in a historic library :-).


21 posted on 01/20/2009 5:42:13 AM PST by Tax-chick (To oppose the god of this world by lifting up Christ.)
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> We’ve been sitting by the gas fire with our greyhound, who is not amused by snow in the slightest.

Not much fur or fat on a Greyhound. Snow would be decidedly unpleasant for the poor thing. A hot fire and a Scoobie-Snax or two, on the other hand...


22 posted on 01/20/2009 5:46:53 AM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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She has a jacket for going out in the cold, but it doesn’t help the cold feet! If we turn on the fire and give her a Chikin Strip, she rolls over on her back in a totally embarassing display.


23 posted on 01/20/2009 5:50:51 AM PST by Tax-chick (To oppose the god of this world by lifting up Christ.)
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(grin!) sounds like a great dog! I like greyhounds, they’re lovely!


24 posted on 01/20/2009 5:57:49 AM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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The inauguration was originally held in March for two reasons — it took longer for news to get out in the 18th century, and also because the position of the sun on that day forms a trine with the position of the sun on Independence day — the founders were masons who were highly informed about astrology (Washington signed the accord with Cornwallis at a specific propitious hour and minute).


25 posted on 01/20/2009 8:03:38 AM PST by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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Huh. I don’t think I knew of the Masonic aspects.


26 posted on 01/20/2009 8:29:36 AM PST by billorites
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"If we turn on the fire and give her a Chikin Strip, she rolls over on her back in a totally embarassing display."

That happens to me with tax cuts.

27 posted on 01/20/2009 8:34:50 AM PST by billorites
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LOL!


28 posted on 01/20/2009 8:57:18 AM PST by Tax-chick (To oppose the god of this world by lifting up Christ.)
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What Obama is really thinking - despite what he says:

1. You not worthy of this great honor.

2. But I congratulate myself that they blindly bought my line and elected me.

3. Now we must all come together, and wipe out those right wing haters.

4. I loath the Constitution, it gets in the way far too much.

5. I will work against conservatives.

6. I will work for Mr. Soros.

7. We must avoid entangling alliances. Iran is such a little country.

8. America’s strength = socialism.

9. Socialism’s strength = Obama.

10. I am God.

29 posted on 01/20/2009 9:00:30 AM PST by CharacterCounts (1984 was supposed to be a work of fiction, not a how-to manual.)
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