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Obama to use 2 Bibles when he takes oath of office
FOXNEWS ^ | January 10, 2013 | Associated Press

Posted on 01/10/2013 1:29:47 PM PST by dubyajam

President Obama is putting a symbolic twist on a time-honored tradition, taking the oath of office for his second term with his hand placed not on a single Bible, but two -- one owned by Martin Luther King Jr. and one by Abraham Lincoln.

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KEYWORDS: 1biblenotenough4zero; bible; inaugural; inauguration; oathofoffice; obama; obamainauguration; secondterm; swearingin; swornin
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To: dubyajam

Ripped the innards outa one and put in a koran?


41 posted on 01/10/2013 2:38:22 PM PST by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Vendetta))
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To: servo1969
If so, he’ll have to move the Constitution out of the way.

Be nice now. There may be impressionable youngsters reading over my shoulder.
42 posted on 01/10/2013 2:39:38 PM PST by Resettozero
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To: dubyajam
Sure, why not? GayMuzzie is wearing his Allah Akbar ring anyway....


43 posted on 01/10/2013 2:39:49 PM PST by gaijin
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To: gaijin

44 posted on 01/10/2013 2:41:32 PM PST by gaijin
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To: dubyajam

Barack, I’ve read about Abe Lincoln.

I know a lot about Abe Lincoln.

Abe Lincoln is actually a distant cousin of mine.

Barack Obama, you’re no Abe Lincoln!


45 posted on 01/10/2013 2:43:12 PM PST by mkboyce
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To: dubyajam

I think Mohamed, the grand poobah, for the monkey god of the Koran will be very upset if he doesn’t swear faith on the Koran .... might even cut his virgin count down to 10 sheep from 72.


46 posted on 01/10/2013 2:44:04 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Save the nation, have your family's progressives spayed or neutered.)
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To: dubyajam

More Imaging....

They screwball left if trying to paint this whackadoodle usurper as the “Next Lincoln” because if there is another “civil war” they hope to really paint him as the “Next Lincoln” when he crushes the red states....


47 posted on 01/10/2013 2:45:57 PM PST by GraceG
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To: dubyajam

“President Obama is putting a symbolic twist on a time-honored tradition, taking the oath of office for his second term with his hand placed not on a single Bible, but two — one owned by Martin Luther King Jr. and one by Abraham Lincoln.”

What—he misplaced his copy of the one written by Mephistopheles?


48 posted on 01/10/2013 2:48:23 PM PST by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: omega4179

That is so true and I do not understand it. Why GOP figures...especially Lincoln. He is a rat...why not FDR or Kennedy? He should know that in republican eyes he will NEVER be anything close...heck many don’t even consider him an American. I dread the monuments the left will try to erect of him one day....can you just imagine!


49 posted on 01/10/2013 2:55:00 PM PST by yellowdoghunter
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To: dubyajam

In case one bursts into flames when he touches it?


50 posted on 01/10/2013 2:57:33 PM PST by Smedley (It's a sad day for American capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over Central Park)
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To: MNGal
I can’t believe that Dr. King’s family supports this.

All do or did except for the niece.

51 posted on 01/10/2013 3:02:41 PM PST by Theodore R. ("Hey, the American people must all be crazy out there!")
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To: gaijin

Wow, series nail biter.


52 posted on 01/10/2013 3:06:36 PM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: svcw

Can’t help but recall Ringo “I’ve got blisters on my fingers!”


53 posted on 01/10/2013 3:07:49 PM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: dubyajam

Two Bibles? Or two korans disguised as Bibles?


54 posted on 01/10/2013 3:10:29 PM PST by rockabyebaby (We are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo screwed!)
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To: dubyajam

he must be so liberal that he needs the bibles of two republicans


55 posted on 01/10/2013 3:24:15 PM PST by Cyclone59 (Obama is like Ron Burgundy - he will read ANYTHING that is on the teleprompter)
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To: dubyajam

Make it three Bibles, and include the "Bible" he believes comes closest to his interpretation of scripture.

56 posted on 01/10/2013 3:26:42 PM PST by Pollster1 (Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: dubyajam
Why doesn't he just use The Audacity of Hope since he worships himself?
57 posted on 01/10/2013 3:36:45 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: SharpRightTurn

His hand should be placed on his real bible. Karl Marx’s “Communist Manifesto.”


58 posted on 01/10/2013 3:37:25 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: dubyajam
Supreme Court cases that cite “natural born Citizen” as one born on U.S. soil to citizen parents:

The Venus, 12 U.S. 8 Cranch 253 253 (1814)

Vattel, who, though not very full to this point, is more explicit and more satisfactory on it than any other whose work has fallen into my hands, says: “The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives or indigenes are those born in the country of parents who are citizens. Society not being able to subsist and to perpetuate itself but by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights.

Shanks v. Dupont, 28 U.S. 3 Pet. 242 242 (1830)

Ann Scott was born in South Carolina before the American revolution, and her father adhered to the American cause and remained and was at his death a citizen of South Carolina. There is no dispute that his daughter Ann, at the time of the Revolution and afterwards, remained in South Carolina until December, 1782. Whether she was of age during this time does not appear. If she was, then her birth and residence might be deemed to constitute her by election a citizen of South Carolina. If she was not of age, then she might well be deemed under the circumstances of this case to hold the citizenship of her father, for children born in a country, continuing while under age in the family of the father, partake of his national character as a citizen of that country. Her citizenship, then, being prima facie established, and indeed this is admitted in the pleadings, has it ever been lost, or was it lost before the death of her father, so that the estate in question was, upon the descent cast, incapable of vesting in her? Upon the facts stated, it appears to us that it was not lost and that she was capable of taking it at the time of the descent cast.

Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1857)

The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. As society cannot perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their parents, and succeed to all their rights.' Again: 'I say, to be of the country, it is necessary to be born of a person who is a citizen; for if he be born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country. . . .

Minor v. Happersett , 88 U.S. 162 (1875)

The Constitution does not in words say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners. Some authorities go further and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of their parents. As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first.

United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898)

At common law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children, born in a country of parents who were its citizens, became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.

Perkins v. Elg, 307 U.S. 325 (1939),

Was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that a child born in the United States to naturalized parents on U.S. soil is a natural born citizen and that the child's natural born citizenship is not lost if the child is taken to and raised in the country of the parents' origin, provided that upon attaining the age of majority, the child elects to retain U.S. citizenship "and to return to the United States to assume its duties." Not only did the court rule that she did not lose her native born Citizenship but it upheld the lower courts decision that she is a "natural born Citizen of the United States" because she was born in the USA to two naturalized U.S. Citizens.

But the Secretary of State, according to the allegation of the bill of complaint, had refused to issue a passport to Miss Elg 'solely on the ground that she had lost her native born American citizenship.' The court below, properly recognizing the existence of an actual controversy with the defendants [307 U.S. 325, 350] (Aetna Life Ins. Co. v. Haworth, 300 U.S. 227 , 57 S.Ct. 461, 108 A.L.R. 1000), declared Miss Elg 'to be a natural born citizen of the United States' (99 F.2d 414) and we think that the decree should include the Secretary of State as well as the other defendants. The decree in that sense would in no way interfere with the exercise of the Secretary's discretion with respect to the issue of a passport but would simply preclude the denial of a passport on the sole ground that Miss Elg had lost her American citizenship."

The Supreme Court of the United States has never applied the term “natural born citizen” to any other category than “those born in the country of parents who are citizens thereof”.

59 posted on 01/10/2013 3:39:25 PM PST by Godebert (No Person Except a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

He’ll be touching Bibles, but thinking Korans. Thanks dubyajam.


60 posted on 01/10/2013 3:50:50 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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