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Audacity of Truth
Spinsational:
"We were so busy just getting stuff done and dealing with the immediate crises that were in front of us that I think we lost some of that sense of speaking directly to the American people about what their core values are and why we have to make sure those institutions are matching up with those values."
-Obama, explaining recent Democrat losses, 1/20/10
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- Ever wonder why? January 12, 2010
- The decision to bench Peyton Manning: Right or wrong? December 28, 2009
- Is my dad turning into a metrosexual? November 24, 2009
- My “Things To Do For Christmas” list November 23, 2009
Who’da thought we’d be preparing to inaugurate the next Abe Lincoln?
I mean, seriously – had I known that, I might have just pulled the lever for the guy myself!
If we wiggle our noses and click our shoes together several times fast, we might even get a new American flag complete with ABEama’s face on it, a presidential campaign that will continue on well after The One is sworn into office (video from PEBO on his “Organizing for America” campaign can be viewed here)…
Seriously, anyone else feeling a little surreal this weekend watching all this? The fact that his supporters – not to mention the mainstream media (but I repeat myself) – act like the fact that Obama is essentially pretending he’s Abraham Lincoln is no big deal?
James Joyner provides a rare voice of reason in DC:
So, why in blazes is he pretending that this is 1860 and he’s arriving in DC for the first time from his home state?
We’re quite literally shutting down DC next Tuesday for him. All day. In fact, roads are already closing in anticipation of his inaugural. There are concerts going on this weekend. He’ll be sworn in at noon Tuesday, have a parade that lasts almost until dark, and have fancy ball after fancy ball going into the wee hours of the night. How much adulation does this guy need?
It’s only just begun.
The next four years are gonna be long ones.
(Some links via MM)
Related: Text of PEBO’s prepared remarks delivered in Baltimore, MD.
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My fav quotes are BO talking about global warming and the crowd is standing in the coldest weather (teens) in years. This man has a cement face.
The Great Pretender?
Four?
Let’s see, Lincoln really did corrupt and ignore the Constitution, suspended habeas corpus, committed massacres in Maryland, oversaw a genocidal war against half the country which resulted in nearly a million casualties, and then got himself assassinated.
Yeah, that’s exactly the kind of president we need!
Four years? This small-tent conservative wagers that the GOP won’t even be a major political party come 2012. They are too busy working on their top priority – getting invited to the Messiah’s dinner parties.
I have nothing nice to say so there for I wont say anything at all…
Gosh, I guess the Obamessiah couldn’t find any DEMOCRAT role models to pattern himself after. Big surprise.
You know what I think? I don’t think this is necessarily an attempt to paint Obama as the next Lincoln so much as it’s an attempt by the left to rewrite some history and claim one of the icons of conservatism and the Republican Party as their own. I’ve already come across some comments at a couple of lefty sites saying that were Lincoln alive today, he would have been a liberal (a few have said the same thing about Washington and some of the other founding fathers).
Has anyone broke the news to Obama?
Lincoln was a Republican.
Not that there is anything wrong with that.
The best Presidents in the last hundre years have been Republican. In fact one, George Bush the first was actually trained for the job.
It’s quite confusing. What is the “O” telling us? Is he declaring war on the country?