Posted on 01/17/2009 6:03:51 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Barack Obama's historic train ride to Washington on Saturday drew large, cheering crowds of people who braved freezing weather and gathered along the tracks in cities and small towns along the way in hopeful anticipation of getting a glimpse of the nation's next president.
In Baltimore, Maryland, alone, about 40,000 people stood shoulder-to-shoulder in the cold to greet Obama as he stopped on his way to his Tuesday inauguration.
His welcome was raucous and animated, as the sea of people cheered, waved and took pictures. Tears rolled down one woman's face as Obama spoke. "We love you, Obama!" another yelled out. "I love you back," Obama answered calmly, eliciting a roar from the crowd.
The same emotions were expressed up and down the tracks on the 137-mile journey, a trip that started in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and retraced the train ride Abraham Lincoln took on his way to becoming president in 1861. Watch Obama share the love »
As he did so often during his campaign, Obama drew upon American history in his remarks to pose a parallel to the country's current challenges. He noted the struggles of the colonials, the "first patriots," against the British.
"They were willing to put all they were and all they had on the line," Obama told the crowd in Baltimore. "Their lives, their fortune, and sacred honor for a set of ideals that continue to light the world: that we are all equal. That our rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness come not from our laws but from our Maker."
Later he said, "the American Revolution was, and remains, an ongoing struggle in the minds and hearts of the people."
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Private army, a cult... shades of a Waco, TX burn retort on them all. Scary party.
I think it is time to have the book the Rise and the Fall of the Third Reich in reprint..
Just because a half white man has become president?
This is getting REALLY SCARY!! I cannot believe what I am witnessing, it gives me chill bumps and the creeps.
How about a St Obama’s day right after St.Patrick’s and an Halloweenorama mardigras type thing in New Orleans... can’t wait to see San Francisco all over (gasp, sorry, I’m gona throw up now)
I was just watching a jewelry channel and, OMG, they started selling a coin with the Liberal God on it. Have these zombies lost their minds? I thought I was watching a WWII movie in Nazi Germany. Where are Americans that have brain cells still working and rational???
Real people saving real lives for real make history, the rest like Obama pretend. A New Declaration? From what? Conservatives? Consciousness?
This is so ordinary and lame. The Bible is full of such examples of idiocy and free cruelty. This is only on a bigger scale because of many more fools involved.
Not even in office and I'm sick of his mug.
Obama wants to impose his ideology that he doesn’t call “ideology.”
That makes it divine inspiration I guess....Sarc.
America’s Hugo Chavez.......
Still bucks to make of it, just like merchants of the Temple. It’s all very grievious.
I remember watching this dunce woman on MTV demanding a 50 grand kitchen from her equaly flamin “artist” husband who was refusing, and her going into a nastyest of pouts. I was thinking, my, if I were a craftsman, it would be so easy to do cheap ez expensive gaudy crap and sell it. Yet the whole grieviousness of the show left me deeply unmotivated.
‘That One’ is try desperately to create a legacy before he’s even been inaugurated. I think he’s trying to attach his name to Lincoln’s in hopes that folks will take him more seriously.
There all going to fall hard when the cult crashes.
All cults do not end well.
Don’t even start me on his mug. Looks too much in manerism and attitude like my ex’s lover from the mid east. eeeehhyuuhh... I get two for one whamy, personaly and now nationaly. Cake of cakes. Folkes who can’t stand his mug seem to be in tune with a suffering somehow, apparently, spirit induced. The “man” is so into himself he’d completely be oblivious of the crucifiction scene and unjustice. The riots he provokes are of the “me too, not Him, but me only” kind of most disgusting... shades of Judah’s hanging himself as an angry retort of martyrdom against Christ.
Just maybe he’s in league with God’s Enemy#1.
Yes, I believe you have it. After all the original documents were signed by a bunch of evil slaveholders, and as such are fatally flawed. Plus the Bill of Rights doesn't include stuff like the right to a "decent" job, food, housing, and medical care (something the communists used to point to when deriding our Consitution (I remember this well from my youth.) Obama, Ayres, Dohrn and all the saints can do much better by us, I'm sure, and then Michelle can be REALLY PROUD of HER country.
Scary and creepy, VERY creepy
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