Posted on 01/17/2009 8:22:37 AM PST by NormsRevenge
PHILADELPHIA President-elect Barack Obama, tracing the train route Abraham Lincoln took nearly a century and a half earlier, undertook the final leg of his inaugural journey to the nation's capital Saturday, pledging to reclaim America's spirit but also warning of steep challenges facing the country.
"Starting now, let's take up in our own lives the work of perfecting our union," he told several hundred people gathered inside a hall at Philadelphia's historic 30th Street train station. "Let's build a government that is responsible to the people and accept our own responsibilities as citizens to hold our government accountable. ... Let's make sure this election is not the end of what we do to change America, but the beginning and the hope for the future."
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No more Bush to kick around.
All Aboard! The Obama ExPre$$ has left the station!
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama takes the stage with his family at a departure ceremony for his whistle stop train trip at the 30th Street Station in Philadelphia January 17, 2009. Obama began a day-long train trip to Washington in Philadelphia. REUTERS/Gary Hershorn (UNITED STATES)
I just keep thinking this guy really hasn’t thought this “Lincoln” thing through all the way.
Or maybe he has.
Neither one is good.
Lincoln was deeply divisive. The endless comparisons between Obama and Lincoln really make me think that this guy DESERVES to have a civil war break out.
darn... this up coming inauguration is looking more and more like a circus everyday.
P.S. I hope he fails.
I just keep thinking this guy really hasnt thought this Lincoln thing through all the way.
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I still don’t see where this fraud can even begin to compare himself to Lincoln. Those that are old enough to have received training in U.S. history, can see how diametrically different the two people are/were. Very different — yet the FRAUD tries to play Lincoln. I guess that is what frauds do.
Lincoln had a crazy wife....who got locked up in the nut house...
This is a trainwreck just waiting to happen.
Everything this poser says and does rings phoney and scripted as hell. I cannot believe those masses who find him convincing. They must be people who think videogames are real life.
Four-day inauguration: Schedule and details
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts206
I think he is hoping something bad happens so he can look good.
And Lincoln seemed like a sad person, but he said some great things.. I like many of the things he said, even if he did violate and/or suspend the Constitution in some ways...
Bush was more like Lincoln....war time president and a divisive nation (caused by liberalism). Obama? well we don’t know who he’s going to reflect.
Quote courtesy of 2ndDivisionVet
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.
Abraham Lincoln, Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Charleston, Illinois, September 18, 1858
You said — “I think he is hoping something bad happens so he can look good.”
Ummm..., what? ... like a hanging... :-)
[ just joking, now... ]
Looking at similarities ... both are from Illinois ... so far, only one has precipitated a civil war by his election ... we’ll see how this one goes.
Looking at similarities ... both are from Illinois ... so far, only one has precipitated a civil war by his election ... well see how this one goes.
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Excellent comparison. I should have thought of that — Captain Zero may achieve that similarity.
ABC interrupted regular programming for a Special Report on his speech. All I remember was him including gays in his list of segments of America that were needed to do something. That got a rousing applause.
Once upon a time in the land of make-believe..... This character has not grown up. God have mercy on us.
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