Posted on 12/23/2008 6:14:00 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
"Washington, D.C. - On January 20th, President-elect Barack Obama will take the oath of office using the same Bible upon which President Lincoln was sworn in at his first inauguration. The Bible is currently part of the collections of the Library of Congress. Though there is no constitutional requirement for the use of a Bible during the swearing-in, Presidents have traditionally used Bibles for the ceremony, choosing a volume with personal or historical significance. President-elect Obama will be the first President sworn in using 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,' said Presidential Inaugural Committee Executive Director Emmett Beliveau. 'The President-elect is committed to holding an Inauguration that celebrates America's unity, and the use of this historic Bible will provide a powerful connection to our common past and common heritage.' "
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Why would the messiah need to place his hand on the bible?
I hope his hand catches on fire.
I think this is the height of presumption. Obama isn’t fit to shine Lincoln’s shoes. (Plus, Lincoln was a Republican.)
Sociopath. He’s all about symbolism, not substance.
“So help me, me”
Has anyone told this moron, Obama, that Lincoln was a Republican?
...and furthermore... As far as I am concerned, this is further proof that B. Hussein Obama MAY be the most megalomaniacal person to EVER be elected president of the United States.
this could be a good thing, maybe he we actually read it for once.
He ran out of Charmin?
‘a powerful connection’ from an object? Does his cannonization know no end?
The Bible is a work that is meaningless without the presence of the Holy Spirit to imprint it on the heart.
He is a counterfeit.
Yep. Unfortunately the sheeple will eat this up....
I would bet that he has never owned a Bible. Something old(Biden} something new (Bambi) something borrowed.. Bible something blew(sp.) our poor country.
I am so sick of Obama’s pr tactics to equate himself with Lincoln. He is NO Lincoln. I am from Illinois and this offends me greatly. It also shows a complete lack of understanding on how genuine legends are created. Usually they are determined by historians, not marketing mavens.
Fits 0bama to a 'T'.
zerO sure wouldn’t want to touch the Bible owned by dead white slaveowners like George Washington
His EGO knows NO BOUNDS? Then again,Obama’s Ignorance of American history is showing. Does Obama understand that Lincoln looked down on Blacks? Lincoln did not want Blacks to be kept in the USA. Lincoln wanted to buy them from the planters and send the blacks back to Africa.
In a way, this is rather amusing.
Why would anyone have a problem with this?
This has historic significance.
Lincoln freed the slaves, after all.
You know, like the ones hussein obama’s mother’s family owned...snicker.
If Obama looks up to Lincoln he'd be hard pressed to find better ... Would everyone prefer he aspire to be Jimmah or Clinton?
Let's back him when he does right.
LOL!!!
who is this “oxy” and why do people always refer to him as a moron??
ROFLOL!!
Thanks, I needed that!
Who’s he gonna free?
Bizarro world.
ROTFLMAO
And he, like Lincon, has a crazy wife.
Has anyone told this moron, Obama, that Lincoln was a racist?
“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.”---Abe Lincoln
"You and we are different races. We have between us a broader difference than exists between almost any other 2 races. Even when you cease to be slaves, you are yet far removed from being placed on an equality with the white race. you are cut off from many of the advantages which the other race enjoys. It is better for us both to be separated."---Abe Lincoln
“Has anyone told this moron, Obama, that Lincoln was a Republican?”
So does that make the Bible a Republican one?
my very first thought-
omg-i’m gonna’ throw myself on a dung heap-if I can find one underneath all the snow.
Lincoln was a realist not a racist. He was right too.
He probably doesn’t own a copy of the Bible but too nervous to use his own family copy of the Koran.
“Marketing mavens” indeed. Don’t forget, Advertising Age named him Marketer of the Year. His next book should be: Marketing: The Way to the White House.
Thanks to all for the very funny postings on this thread. Still laughing. This could become a “must read”, hopefully.
Lincoln WAS a racist. Pretending that he wasn't doesn't make it so. Quite frankly, that's a tactic that liberals use to cover up things that cause them discomfort.
He was right too.
Right about what?
That’s pretty cool.
Exactly what he said in what you posted.
Hmmm...People from the South ought to collectively shutter at the symbolism.
Republican/Democrat — Folks, its BIGGER than that. Lincoln and Obama share the save ideological imperative — “Union” over Constitution. Washington is the epicenter of our nation. Not our states, not our people.
I'm glad you used that passage, oddly enough I've been thinking "test the spirits" for a few days now, over and over again.
I would love to ask BO Plenty in a public forum, "So what do you think of this Jesus, the Christ?" Please someone, please ask him that.
That blacks aren't equal to whites and the two races should live separate?
No Koran?The Bin Laden copy got torched in a cave fire, and that's the only one our Sheik In Chief wanted to use.
not odd at all - God works all things for the good of those that love Him.
Seems appropriate that the two presidents that presided of this nation’s two biggest constitutional crises would use the same Bible. No coincidence that they are both from Illinois as well.
...and a Christian, too.
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