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Inauguration of First Black President, Federal Holiday Honoring King Come to Rare Intersection
Washington Post/AP ^ | January 18, 2013 | Staff

Posted on 01/20/2013 7:06:21 PM PST by lbryce

President Barack Obama plans to use a Bible that belonged to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as he takes his oath of office on the holiday honoring the slain icon, marking what some say is an inextricable tie between the nation’s first black president and the civil rights movement.

It’s only the second time Inauguration Day has coincided with the King holiday. Some say it’s only fitting the celebrations are intertwined.

“It’s almost like fate and history coming together,” said U.S. Rep. John Lewis, who worked alongside King in the fight for civil rights during the 1950s and ‘60s and plans to attend the inauguration. “If it hadn’t been for Martin Luther King Jr., there would be no Barack Obama as president.”

Some King commemorations have been shuffled around to accommodate the inauguration, though others are going on as planned.

King’s youngest daughter, Bernice King, plans to attend the observance of her father’s memory at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where he preached, and said she doesn’t fear the inauguration will overshadow the celebration.

“I think it enhances the observance, actually, because it heightens people’s awareness about the King holiday,” she said. “I also think it gives some sort of validation to the significant work that my father made to this country, to this world, in fact.”

The only other time a presidential inauguration has fallen on the King holiday was in 1997 at the start of President Bill Clinton’s second term. Clinton invoked King’s memory in his inaugural address, and events were planned throughout the inauguration weekend to commemorate King.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhoinauguration; blackpresident; blacks; kenyan; martinlutherking; mlk
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Yes, these are two of a kind, black, communist, demagogues, who took, still take as much as they can manage, give nothing back in return. They are from a parallel universe where their history is merely "fake" history.

Of course, you would expect these two to meet like this at the intersection of history that is merely kitsch right smack dab in the middle of the 'Twilight Zone'.

The mere fact that the fake president plans to use a Bible, a Bible! in his inauguration ceremony is all you need to know. The entire ceremony, 'celebration' is just a huge slap in the face for the American way.

The press wants to make this as some fortuitous historical happenstance.

1 posted on 01/20/2013 7:06:31 PM PST by lbryce
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“The mere fact that the fake president plans to use a Bible, a Bible! “
And a republican’s bible to boot!


2 posted on 01/20/2013 7:10:35 PM PST by 9422WMR (Life is not fair, just deal with it)
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To: lbryce

I still ask why is Obama black? He had a white mamma did he not? And yes I know the answer, being white gets him no special attention or gimmies, he would just be another mediocre lawyer/politician.


3 posted on 01/20/2013 7:11:11 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: lbryce

This guy is America’s last black president as well.


4 posted on 01/20/2013 7:11:31 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: lbryce

And I celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr.’s death on April 4 each year. It’s my birthday ... yes, really.


5 posted on 01/20/2013 7:12:41 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (Molon Labe)
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To: lbryce
Ironic to be sure...one has slave blood and the other slavers blood.
6 posted on 01/20/2013 7:14:33 PM PST by Happy Rain ("Banning guns over Adam Lanza would be like banning speech over Bill Maher.")
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To: 9422WMR

Wow, I am SO moved! Tears in my eyes. NOT.


7 posted on 01/20/2013 7:15:26 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Mastador1
Mulatto was a common term in the 1950's here in Upstate NY. It's pretty much ignored today.

Obama is a mulatto.

8 posted on 01/20/2013 7:16:55 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: lbryce
MLKs birthday is a farce. We should have kept the separate holidays for Washington and Lincoln. MLK was a sex addict plagiarist
9 posted on 01/20/2013 7:17:23 PM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: lbryce

Black days for the Republic.


10 posted on 01/20/2013 7:22:24 PM PST by Iron Munro (I Miss America, don't you?)
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Like, OMG, two guys with brown skin are being celebrated at the same time? Gee, let’s make sure everyone, like, knows about it and stuff. Maybe the WaPo can team up with those guys at the AP and they can, you know, slap together an article... or something.

Stupid libs!


11 posted on 01/20/2013 7:23:14 PM PST by Two Kids' Dad (((( Leftists: Stupid or Evil. Sometimes both. ))))
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That fact that it was a black day for the Atlanta Falcons and the New England Patriots makes it even more creepier.


12 posted on 01/20/2013 7:23:32 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (HealthCare IS NOT a right. The RIGHT to keep and bear arms is.)
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You mean the first muslim president isn’t using the Koran?


13 posted on 01/20/2013 7:28:31 PM PST by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: dennisw
MLK was a sex addict plagiarist.

And those were probably the good things about him. His elevation to sainthood is disgusting considering the reality of Martin Luther King, Junior. I think its apt that Obama inauguration converges with the celebration of another fraud.

14 posted on 01/20/2013 7:39:33 PM PST by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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To: 9422WMR

They just showed a picture of it or what may have been a bible. For all we know, it was the Koran.


15 posted on 01/20/2013 7:52:50 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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I am told today that a lefty clergyman said that this intersection is the work of God (I feel sick)


16 posted on 01/20/2013 7:53:51 PM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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They have even turned an Inauguration into a racist holiday.

The United States of America is in a terrible way, and not only financial, Obama has turned up the race war ten fold since his first Inauguration, and it will only get worse.


17 posted on 01/20/2013 8:03:46 PM PST by Venturer
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To: lbryce; All

B. Hussein Obama IS the Anti-Christ for America.

The minds and emotions of Obama’s voting enablers have been frozen into oblivious support for whatever Obama wants to do.

Nicoleae Carpathia in the fiction book “Left Behind” is what Obama is in real life.

Those who see, and those who hear are ignored or otherwise marginalized by the Obama enablers.

As America struggles to awake from its “White Guilt” first Election (2008), the dawning reality of its first Bolshevik Communist Election (2012) has yet to reach the fear level of action that is the hallmark of American response to mortal danger, for example the Pearl Harbor response in 1941.

To put it in an historical context, the 2008 Election of B. Hussein Obama was analogous to the Japanese Fleet leaving Tokyo Bay for Pearl Harbor.

The Passage and Court approval of Obama’care’ was equivalent to the bombing of The Arizona on 12-7-41.

We are finished as a Republic as long as we continue to hire RINOs to be doormats for Communist Obama’s enablers.

The blame goes not to the Communists, as they are just doing what Communists do best.

The blame goes to the lack of loyal supporters of our Republic who are in the US Congress.

The end of our Republic will not end well if the current RINO leadership domination of Republicans in the US House and Senate continues - - - .


18 posted on 01/20/2013 8:18:16 PM PST by Graewoulf ((Traitor John Roberts' Commune Obama"care" violates Anti-Trust Laws, AND the U.S. Constitution.))
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To: lbryce

Symbolism over substance. Symbolism over substance. Nothing more.


19 posted on 01/20/2013 8:27:44 PM PST by originalbuckeye (Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy)
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I couldn’t care less. I certainly won’t be watching any of it. As far as I’m concerned I won’t have a president for another four years.


20 posted on 01/20/2013 8:31:43 PM PST by jersey117
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