President-elect Obama to be sworn in on Abraham Lincoln's inauguration bible

NY Daily News ^ | Dec.23,2008 | MICHAEL SAUL

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Barack Obama will take the oath of office using the same Bible that Abraham Lincoln was sworn in on at his first inauguration, marking the President-elect's latest symbolic gesture to follow in the foot steps of the nation's 16th president.

Obama, who will become the first African-American president when he is sworn in Jan. 20, will be the first president to use the Lincoln Bible since its initial use in 1861.

"President-elect Obama is deeply honored that the Library of Congress has made the Lincoln Bible available for use during his swearing-in," Emmett Beliveau, executive director of the presidential inaugural committee, said in a statement.

Obama launched his presidential campaign in February 2007 at the Historic Old State Capitol building in Springfield Ill., where Lincoln gave a famous speech condemning slavery.

During the speech, Obama said that "divided we are bound to fail. But the life of a tall, gangly, self-made Springfield lawyer tells us that a different future is possible.

"He tells us that there is power in words. He tells us that there is power in conviction, that beneath all the differences of race and religion, faith and station, we are one people."

The theme for Obama's inaugural ceremony - "A New Birth of Freedom” is taken from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.

Earlier this year, when asked which book, aside from the Bible, he would find essential in the Oval Office, Obama said, "Team of Rivals,” Doris Kearns Goodwin's 2005 bestseller about how Lincoln surrounded himself with advisers who coveted the president's job.

For the inauguration, Obama plans to take a train trip from Philadelphia to Washington, evoking Lincoln's inaugural trek.

The Bible, bound in burgundy velvet with a gold-washed white metal rim around the three outside edges of both covers, was originally purchased by William Thomas Carroll, clerk of the Supreme Court, for Lincoln's swearing-in ceremony on March 4, 1861.

Lincoln could not use his family bible for his inaugural ceremony because it was packed away with the First Family's belongings and still en route to the White House at the time of the ceremony.

All the edges of the 1,280-page bible are heavily gilded. In the center of the top cover is a shield of gold wash over white metal with the words "Holy Bible" chased into it.

The Bible will be on display at the Library of Congress Feb. 12th to May 9th, 2009, as part of an exhibition titled "With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition." The exhibit will then travel to five other American cities.

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Did she plagerize it?

[Non-Sequitur]

Abraham Lincoln was willing to sacrifice >500,000 American lives to expand the strength of the Federal Government. Want to bet Obama will do even more?

Any old reason to dust off the Southron myth machine, huh?

[Non-Sequitur]

Well the old folks here always said, “The South will rise again!”

Didn't you get the news? Soth Postpones Rising Again For Yet Another Year

[MrB]

There will be at least that many who are turned from productive citizens into wards of the state.

[MrB]

“So help me, Me”

[Bryanw92]

A very appropriate choice. Lincoln destroyed the concept of a republic of independent and sovereign states and replaced it with the current model where the states are subservient to the Washington government.

Now, the guy that plans to finish the job is going to be sworn in on his bible.

[pollywog]

That’s because he probably doesn’t have one...needs to borrow it temporarily...sigh.

[MathDoc]

I'm not expecting the next four years to be pretty. I just hope and pray that it will not be a total disaster.

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Revelation 13:1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea,

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... like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion:
Like unto a leopard as in a creature from Africa that is less human than the rest of us? A mouth that makes an impressive sound like a lion but doesn't actually say anything? I haven't come up with anything for his feet, although I expect to see his footprints all over what used to be the Constitution.

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and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.

[EternalVigilance]

“So help me, Me”

That pretty much sums it up.

[MrB]

The left defines “freedom” as freedom FROM responsibility and need to provide for yourself and family.

We define freedom as the freedom TO pursue happiness as you define it to be.

[TLI]

that the country is entering a period when the Second U.S. Civil War is possible.

Hussein The Magnificent seems bent on fast tracking it.

See my Post 3, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2153774/posts?page=3#3

I wonder if even we realize how much of a traitor this guy could be.

[EternalVigilance]

The founders defined liberty as the freedom to do right.

The modern left defines liberty as the right to do anything you want, even if it’s wrong.

[pabianice]

[vetvetdoug]

Merry Christmas to you NS....

Ok, I use statement and reason A...you come back with B...I use C...you use D....agree to disagree...there...that will save us a good amount of cutting and pasting and references. Stay safe..

[MrB]

The left are huge control freaks, masquerading under the guise of libertinism.
They want to control what you consume - energy, food, goods & services, etc.

They do want people to do the wrong things in their personal lives, but that’s just a means to an end. They want our society destroyed so that the people will welcome their control. In order to have more people doing more destructive things, they subsidize and alleviate the natural consequences of those choices, and in the process, punish those successful people who make responsible choices.

[EternalVigilance]

Yes.

The coup plotters making a drunken sot out of the sovereign, so they can steal his throne.

[Christian4Bush]

An image came to mind, from the movie “Raiders of the Lost Ark”...where the Nazi box (that held the Ark of the Covenant) had the swastika burned off...

[vetvetdoug]

Didn't you get the news?

I missed that article by Doris Kearns Goodwin. I didn't know she wrote for the Onion too. I'll bet the three rednecks against your three hand picked honest politicians from Chicago.

[mewzilla]

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