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O TO ARRIVE IN A 'LINCOLN':INAUGURAL THEMES WILL HARKEN BACK TO GREAT EMANCIPATOR
New York Post ^ | 1/13/2009 | Clemente Lisi

Posted on 01/13/2009 9:26:14 AM PST by mojito

Edited on 01/13/2009 9:33:59 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

In what will be a Lincoln-themed inauguration from top to bottom, Obama won't only follow in the footsteps of the former president - he'll also eat like him, it was announced yesterday.

Obama's jampacked Abe-apalooza moved into high gear with an announcement from the Congressional Inaugural Committee that it will hold a luncheon next Tuesday following the swearing-in ceremony that's modeled after foods Lincoln enjoyed.


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KEYWORDS: abelincoln; bhocoronation; bhoinauguration; coronation; inauguration; lincoln; obama; obarf
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To: mojito

41 posted on 01/13/2009 9:55:21 AM PST by TSgt (Extreme vitriol and rancorous replies served daily. - Mike W USAF)
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To: AuntB

And, isn’t he more white than black? I guess I’m glad I’m 60 instead of 20......


42 posted on 01/13/2009 9:57:23 AM PST by MrLee (Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalyim!! God bless Eretz Israel.)
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To: BuckyKat
It's gotten so bad that the "real news" can't be discerned from The Onion.

I actually went back to the top of the page to check to see if it was The Onion after reading your comment. It's has gotten bad.

43 posted on 01/13/2009 9:59:29 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (Hey Obama, why lawyer up when you can pony up? Show us your vault copy BC)
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To: mojito

Complete with inaugural outfit. Tophat included.

44 posted on 01/13/2009 10:00:34 AM PST by OB1kNOb (Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.)
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To: MrLee

“I guess I’m glad I’m 60 instead of 20......”

I hear ya. I’m beginning to see the value of being 61 with this mess coming down. I’m ashamed of the mess being left to my children.


45 posted on 01/13/2009 10:01:14 AM PST by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925)
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To: mojito

Paying tribute to Lincoln (as opposed to Obama being Lincolnesque which he is not) is fine.

I’m sure Obama knows the left teaches that Lincoln was a racist who didn’t free any slaves. So Obam praising Lincoln strikes me as odd.


46 posted on 01/13/2009 10:02:37 AM PST by Williams (It's The Policies, Stupid.)
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To: mojito
Let's hope Barry's term isn't a mirror of Lincoln's.

Abraham Lincoln - Tyrant

Prior to taking the reins of power as the world's first economic fascist, Lincoln was an advocate of the 'American System,' or 'Mercantilism.' Lincoln devoted his entire career to the establishment of a central bank. As a new Republican, he was able to establish a cental bank and implement the failed 'corporate welfare' policies of the Whig party, financed through the printing of paper ignorantly perceived as money.

Upon taking office Lincoln committed a series of unconstitutional acts Including launching an invasion of the South without consulting Congress, as required by the Constitution; declaring martial law; blockading the Southern ports; suspending the writ of habeas corpus for the duration of his administration; imprisoning without trial thousands of Northern citizens; arresting and imprisoning newspaper publishers who were critical of him; censoring all telegraph communication; nationalizing the railroads; creating several new states without the consent of the citizens of those states; ordering federal troops to interfere with the elections in the North by intimidating Democratic voters; deporting a member of Congress, Clement L. Vallandigham of Ohio, for criticizing the administration's income tax proposal at a Democratic Party rally; confiscating private property; confiscating firearms in violation of the Second Amendment; and effectively gutting the ninth and 10th amendments to the Constitution, among other things.

47 posted on 01/13/2009 10:04:41 AM PST by Nephi (Like the failed promise of Fascism, masquerading as Capitalism? You're gonna love Marxism.)
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To: mojito

The O’s emancipation proclamation will be for the “WORKERS,” in typical Marxist lingo. The problem is that O’s Omancipation proctologizing will Oppress all people.


48 posted on 01/13/2009 10:05:41 AM PST by pallis
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To: mojito

One thing you can say about the one, he never has a thought he can call his own.


49 posted on 01/13/2009 10:05:43 AM PST by Tarpon (America's first principles, freedom, liberty, market economy and self-reliance will never fail.)
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To: mojito

The Odiot is truly a victory of symbolism over substance...SSZ


50 posted on 01/13/2009 10:06:10 AM PST by szweig (Had it up to here)
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To: MrB
Putting Michael Schiavo's attorney (who helped kill his wife, Terri - RIP) as the #3 guy in the "new Justice department" should give us all a hint as to what he would like to do to the old and infirm among us.

You see, "we just can't afford" to keep the defective around, and besides it is more "compassionate" to "let them die," don't you know. Even if it means starving and dehydrating them to death.

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51 posted on 01/13/2009 10:07:12 AM PST by vox_freedom ("If God be for us, who is against us?" -- Romans 8:31)
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To: XeniaSt

Actually ... the volcanic activity is in Yellowstone ...


52 posted on 01/13/2009 10:08:18 AM PST by clamper1797 (I pledge to give the Obamanation the same level of support that the liberals gave GWB)
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To: Nephi
Prior to taking the reins of power as the world's first economic fascist...

Wow, it took 47 posts before the lost cause mythology made it's first appearance. You guys are slipping.

53 posted on 01/13/2009 10:10:08 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Nephi
Re: Lincoln

Yup ...that sounds like what the obamanation might be like ...

54 posted on 01/13/2009 10:11:50 AM PST by clamper1797 (I pledge to give the Obamanation the same level of support that the liberals gave GWB)
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To: mojito
Overreaching!

That's OK. By the time the Obama administration is over, he'll have 54% of the population thinking Lincoln was a democrat.

55 posted on 01/13/2009 10:12:43 AM PST by GVnana ("I once dressed as Tina Fey for Halloween." - Sarah Palin)
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To: mojito

As anyone regaled the Obamas with theather tickets?


56 posted on 01/13/2009 10:13:41 AM PST by LottieDah (If only those who speak so eloquently on the rights of animals would do so on behalf of the unborn.)
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To: mojito
Wow! Celebration of the 1860's where half of the country was almost destroyed by the other half. Economic conditions for most African Americans little better than 100 years ago. Economic policies right out of the 1930's.

Some Hope and Change! America has gone mad!

57 posted on 01/13/2009 10:18:38 AM PST by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: Nephi

Funny how the history books gloss over a lot of that.


58 posted on 01/13/2009 10:22:00 AM PST by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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To: mojito

I wonder if he plans to go to the theater, as well . . .


59 posted on 01/13/2009 10:32:21 AM PST by bonnieblue4me (You can put lipstick on a donkey (or a dimrat), but it is still an ass!)
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To: MrLee
His ancestors were slave traders!!!

His ancestors on his father's side were African slave traders. His ancestors on his mother's side were American slave owners. Of course, Obama doesn't want to talk about that any more than he wants to talk about his still never seen birth certificate.

"Barack Obama's campaign hired genealogists to research the family's roots at the onset of his presidential bid, but aides have largely kept the findings secret. Genealogists at Lowcountry Africana, a research center at the University of South Florida in Tampa, scoured documents to put together a 120-page report, according to project director Toni Carrier. She said the center signed a confidentiality agreement and is not allowed to disclose the findings publicly."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-obama-slavery-01-dec01,0,485324.story

60 posted on 01/13/2009 10:37:53 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy (DNC = Do Nothing Congress)
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