[mojito]

Can anyone say "overreaching"?

[BuckyKat]

It's gotten so bad that the "real news" can't be discerned from The Onion.

[Michael.SF.]

He will probably also ride in Lincoln:

I can just hear the bass beat pounding:

BOOM....BOOM.....BOOM... BOOM....BOOM....BOOM.....

[Uri’el-2012]

The backdrop for the luncheon will be Lincoln-esque as well - the painting "View of the Yosemite Valley" by Thomas Hill, borrowed from the New-York Historical Society.

The painting, which will hang behind Obama, is a landscape of Yosemite Valley at dawn - representing Lincoln's signing of the 1864 Yosemite Grant that set aside the land as a public reserve.

I think this is ironic with all the volcanic activity in Yosemite.

There may soon be a new view of the Yosemite valley

[polymuser]

I’m going to enjoy being in the counterculture. Young people will soon easily understand the stupidity of the new ruling class, and when they learn what it’s costing them....

[Islander7]

So 0bama prefers Lincolns to Cadillacs. So what?!




The Linclon is clearly more stylish.

[snarks_when_bored]

O TO ARRIVE IN A 'LINCOLN': INAUGURAL THEMES WILL HARKEN BACK TO GREAT EMANCIPATOR

I reckon it's sort of a good thing that Obama is seeking to model himself after a great Republican President.

[TSgt]

[OB1kNOb]

Complete with inaugural outfit. Tophat included.

[Williams]

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.

[Nephi]

Let's hope Barry's term isn't a mirror of Lincoln's.

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.

[pallis]

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.

[Tarpon]

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

[szweig]

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

[GVnana]

Overreaching!

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

[LottieDah]

As anyone regaled the Obamas with theather tickets?

[April Lexington]

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!

[bonnieblue4me]

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

[the invisib1e hand]

INAUGURAL THEMES WILL HARKEN BACK TO GREAT EMANCIPATOR

What's the word for the type of spin that's designed to convey the exact opposite impression of what's really going on?

[peace with honor]

is he going to wear a top hat like Abe?

[Carling]

Obama is the epitome of “all style, no substance”. Will the Roman or Greek or Lincoln Memorial columns (or whatever they were) make an appearance as well?