Posted on 01/11/2013 9:54:15 PM PST by originalbuckeye
President Barack Obama will deliver this year's State of the Union Address on February 12, which is the same day as Abraham Lincoln's birthday.
"Our nation continues to face immense challenges, and the American people expect us to work together in the new year to find meaningful solutions," House speaker John Boehner writes in a letter to Obama, inviting him to deliver the address. "This will require a willingness to seek common ground as well as presidential leadership. For that reason, the Congress and the Nation would welcome an opportunity to hear your plan and specific solutions for addressing America’s great challenges. Therefore, it is my privilege to invite you to speak before a Joint Session of Congress on February 12, 2013 in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol Building."
It's been reported that Obama has accepted Boehner's invitation to speak on Lincoln's birthday
why the heck did Boehner offer to have the SOTU on Lincoln’s birthday? This almost sounds like Chamberlain & Hitler where Chamberlain offers to do something he thinks Hitler will like in order to appease him.
Will he be taking in the theater later that night?
Gee, I look forward to not watching is moment in history. I would rather watch reruns of anything instead. My BS meter has about run dry listening to this asshat.
sic semper obamus
You said it well!
That photo shop on Drudge makes the ONE look eerily similar to Lincoln.
What is running at the Ford theater?
I’m dead sick of Chamberlain bashing. Absolutely everything was worse after the war from Britain’s perspective: no more empire (if you care about that sorta thing), lack of money, a bigger Welfare State, foreign policy dictated by foreigners, and a menace at least as bad in Central Europe without Germany as a buffer. If Churchill’s so damn perspicacious and Chamberlain so shortsighted, how come the former didn’t see that coming?
Oh, I forgot, the alternative was German global domination and slavery/rape/death for their countrymen. That’s what the “finest hour” speech was getting at. Except it’s malarkey. Hitler didn’t want to fight the West. He was pointed the other way. But France and Britain had to protect their ally Poland, unlike their other allies, and so made war. A handful of years later they actively participated in giving up the Poles to an evil totalitarian regime, only a different one this time.
What Churchill types wanted was to remain preeminent world powers. That’s exactly what they weren’t postwar, partly because of fighting it. And the world was arguably a worse place.
Well, maybe it’s hinting that it’s time for another civil war.
So, uh, how’d you like “Triumph of Will” Mrs. Lincoln?
Hmm... Hussein seeking some sort of honor at the Oscars.
Huh?
If I’m a Nazi or fellow traveler for posting that, does that make you a commie or commie sympathizer?
>> Have we EVER had a Pres..ent so long on symbolism and so short on substance?
He will only be remembered for his Marxism.
He will thus remind the world that not all Illinois lawyers are created equal.
Shouldn't that be sic semper Obamo? You want the dative ... After all, you are advocating putting something to the man.
That reminds me of that scene where the Centurion lectures Brian (”Romanes eunt domus?!”...)
Romani, ite domum!
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=romani%20ite%20domum
The Urbaan Dictionary is the final authority on languages, dead or alive.
Just remember to tell the idiots, “ you do know Lincoln was a Republican, right?”
It blows their mind when I point that out to the idiot socialists at work, they have no clue. Some have even denied it.
R'ut R'oh.......
His big ears will be remembered, too!
Is he heading to Ford Theatre afterwards?
LLS
Smells like Fort Sumter these days . . .
Appropriate, since Lincoln freed the enslaved, and Obama has enslaved the free....
Obama is trying so hard to go down in history as a modern day Lincoln.
I wonder if he knows about this Lincoln quote:
“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races - that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything.”
-Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Charleston, Illinois, September 18, 1858 (The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume III, pp. 145-146.)
http://ourfoundingtruth.blogspot.com/2009/02/abraham-lincoln-racist.html
boner is talking about willingness to find common ground and presidential leadership to address our challenges.
HAH.
There is no common ground between baraq and the US citizen. Nothing.
Presidentail leadership? He is leader of his supporters, not of this country.
The rewriting of history is an essential part of a communist takeover.
Heard someone today talking about the Republicans in Tammany Hall.
It’s time for our own “night of the long knives”.
He'll probably be even more open as to his intentions by using Abraham Lincoln to support his feeeeeeeeeeeelings about Constitutional guarantees.
About habeas corpus:
Defending his position on habeas corpus Lincoln asked concerning a writ of habeas corpus: should everything fail because that one law "made in such extreme tenderness of the citizens' liberty that practically it relieves more of the guilty than of the innocent [cannot] to a very limited extent be violated?" You want "the government itself go to pieces?"
"'Such extreme tenderness of citizens' liberty', harms the Nation," said President Obama. "We yield way too much to accommodate the masses and ignore the government. I have not given them such human rights, former president Clinton is correct when he said that there is too much freedom for them."
< /mockery>
Obama and his followers really believe he’s the 2nd coming of Lincoln, Roosevelt and Christ.
His arrogance is boundless- a good example of why you should not believe your press. But he should be warned- pride goeth before a fall
I am more afraid of a ‘Kristallnacht’against all those who disagree with the Won.
“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.” Thomas Jefferson
“Just remember to tell the idiots, “ you do know Lincoln was a Republican, right?”
It blows their mind when I point that out to the idiot socialists at work, they have no clue. Some have even denied it.”
It is a trade market of socialist & leftist to know as little as possible about history, economics, or reason. Given that we are all given that ideology in the Government schools and media propaganda, what separates us from them is that we know this ideology is a failed one that has led to more death, misery and destruction than any other in the history of mankind.
In short this conflict among our people is between those that know better and those that don’t.
“Appropriate, since Lincoln freed the enslaved, and Obama has enslaved the free....”
Life does have its little ironies.
We all seem to expect Obama to exploit the occasion to make a remark in support of his favorite subject slavery to the state.
I will not deny that Obama has made us less free; however, much of our enslavement came long before he appeared on the scene.
Income-tax withholdings are, by far, the most vile and immoral tool of our enslavement: for we cannot even refuse to pay our masters, they that take our due pay before it even enters our hand. It was the 16th Amendment that re-instituted slavery.
C’mon folks this should all be obvious to everyone. President Obama is going to use one of Lincoln’s bibles for his swearing in a little more than a week from today and then deliver his state of the union on Abe’s birthday. The symbolism is obvious but this is the president’s and the Democratic Party’s “in your face” swipe at us and they will love every minute of rubbing our noses in it. The GOP establishment wusses still think we can find common ground with these people but they want to mock and ultimately destroy us and this is a subtle reminder of that.
>”>>“Appropriate, since Lincoln freed the enslaved, and Obama has enslaved the free....”
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Life does have its little ironies.
I will not deny that Obama has made us less free; however, much of our enslavement came long before he appeared on the scene.
Income-tax withholdings are, by far, the most vile and immoral tool of our enslavement: for we cannot even refuse to pay our masters, they that take our due pay before it even enters our hand. It was the 16th Amendment that re-instituted slavery.
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Once again I find-myself in agreement. Perhaps maybe one of us should start debating with liberals on their forums?
I think it is interesting that the income tax withholding(payment by employee) started in world war 2 because a lot of people were failing to pay any income taxes and the Federal Government could not go after them all.
So as usual they target a smaller more manageable minority.
Namely business owners who generally have stationary locations in which to visit in addition to being much fewer in number than the general population. The measure was controversial at the time for exactly the reasons you described. But like most Government evils it was never over turned.
“C’mon folks this should all be obvious to everyone. President Obama is going to use one of Lincoln’s bibles for his swearing in a little more than a week from today and then deliver his state of the union on Abe’s birthday. The symbolism is obvious but this is the president’s and the Democratic Party’s “in your face” swipe at us and they will love every minute of rubbing our noses in it. The GOP establishment wusses still think we can find common ground with these people but they want to mock and ultimately destroy us and this is a subtle reminder of that.”
This is true. One really does have to wonder why the left doesn’t understand why the country is becoming ever more hostilities. Their own acts are designed to infuriate the other half.
I read the Lincoln movie was nominated for 12 awards. Hmmm..Just in time for the admitted foreign born Kenyans 2nd inauguration after being unconstitutionally elected for a 2nd time even though 3 months later I’m still having a hell of a time finding people who actually voted for this putz.
Of course it's possible that taking over Poland would have brought Germany war with the Soviet Union, but in real history, German and the USSR were willing to form an alliance to carve up Poland and give Hitler an opportunity to expand in other directions.
You know, it's touching to think that Hitler and the Nazis were primarily focused on fighting Russia, Stalin, and Communism, but Hitler was on the Western Front in the First World War, and overturning Germany's humiliation by Britain and France was high on his agenda.
On the welfare state, both Churchill and Chamberlain were ambiguous figures. Neither went as far as Labour, and Churchill tried to make opposition to socialism the defining issue in 1945, but both Churchill and Chamberlain had contributed to the growth of the welfare state when they were in office.
Churchill worship does get out of hand. Britons see Churchill in the round with all his good and bad qualities. Americans tend to co-opt him as a simplistic ideological symbol. We don't see the things about him that really irritated his contemporaries and drove them mad during Churchill's five decades in politics. But understand that it was precisely Chamberlain's government -- not Churchill's -- that decided that Hitler had gone too far and needed to be opposed militarily.
Remember that tacky black widow spider dress that Moochelle wore when he was elected the first time?
symbolism and wicked games.
It’s going to be a speech to avoid and a troublesome 4 more years.
Sorry Obama, your nothing but a bump on a gnats ass compared to PRESIDENT Lincoln.
F u B O !!
All the symbolism in the world isn’t going to save Obama from the monkey on his back.
No, not Michelle. It is Madame Cocaine.
Madame Cocaine?
The seduction of Self-Destruct?
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