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John Titor's Legacy
Obama as Lincoln
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<blockquote data-quote="Samstwitch" data-source="post: 63244" data-attributes="member: 2770"><p><span style="font-size: 15px">I completely agree that Obama is the president that John Titor said "tried desperately to be the next Lincoln" and there are many reasons why. Just one example: At his Inauguration, Obama was sworn in with the same Bible that Lincoln used. Here is an article about it.</span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 40px"></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><a href="http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/politics/2008-12-23-inauguration-obama_N.htm" target="_blank">Obama chooses Lincoln's Bible for swearing in ceremony</a></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama plans to take the oath of office with his right hand on the same Bible used to swear in Abraham Lincoln, the Presidential Inaugural Committee announced Tuesday.</span></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">Obama, who like Lincoln won the presidency after a stint as a state lawmaker and then a member of Congress from Illinois, has sometimes compared himself to the 16th president. He invoked Lincoln by announcing his presidential candidacy from the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Ill., as Lincoln did. And, like Lincoln, he plans to travel to his inauguration in Washington by train.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">"Not only is Lincoln one of my political heroes," Obama told USA TODAY last year, "but, like Lincoln, I served for seven years in Springfield in the state Senate, and it's there I learned how to legislate; it's there that I developed many of my political ideas." </span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">Doris Kearns Goodwin, who chatted with Obama during the primaries about her book on Lincoln's Cabinet, Team of Rivals, has said that both men share "an internal confidence and a certain serenity to not get rattled."</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">Sean Wilentz, a professor of history at Princeton University, called the Obama-Lincoln comparison "tortured" and "absurd" during the primaries, when he was supporting Hillary Rodham Clinton. In an interview Tuesday, he argued that, unlike Obama, Lincoln had been involved in national politics as a state party leader for 28 years before he ran for president. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">Still, Wilentz said, there is no harm in Obama evoking Lincoln, as long as people realize Obama will rise or fall on his own merits. "Whatever works," Wilentz said.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">The Bible is part of the collections of the Library of Congress. It was purchased specifically for Lincoln's swearing-in ceremony on March 4, 1861, the inaugural committee said in its statement. Obama would be the first president sworn in using it since Lincoln in 1861. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">"President-elect Obama is deeply honored that the Library of Congress has made the Lincoln Bible available for use during his swearing-in," Presidential Inaugural Committee Executive Director Emmett Beliveau said in a statement. "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."</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">The use of Lincoln's Bible fits the inaugural theme, "A New Birth of Freedom," a phrase Lincoln used in his Gettysburg Address that the inaugural committee selected to mark the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth.Obama would become the first president to use a historically significant Bible at his swearing in since George H.W. Bush, who placed his hand on the one that had been used to swear in George Washington as the nation's first president in 1789. </span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Samstwitch, post: 63244, member: 2770"] [SIZE=4]I completely agree that Obama is the president that John Titor said "tried desperately to be the next Lincoln" and there are many reasons why. Just one example: At his Inauguration, Obama was sworn in with the same Bible that Lincoln used. Here is an article about it.[/SIZE] [INDENT=1] [/INDENT] [INDENT=2] [/INDENT] [SIZE=5][URL='http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/politics/2008-12-23-inauguration-obama_N.htm']Obama chooses Lincoln's Bible for swearing in ceremony[/URL][/SIZE] [COLOR=#ccffcc]WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama plans to take the oath of office with his right hand on the same Bible used to swear in Abraham Lincoln, the Presidential Inaugural Committee announced Tuesday.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]Obama, who like Lincoln won the presidency after a stint as a state lawmaker and then a member of Congress from Illinois, has sometimes compared himself to the 16th president. He invoked Lincoln by announcing his presidential candidacy from the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Ill., as Lincoln did. And, like Lincoln, he plans to travel to his inauguration in Washington by train.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]"Not only is Lincoln one of my political heroes," Obama told USA TODAY last year, "but, like Lincoln, I served for seven years in Springfield in the state Senate, and it's there I learned how to legislate; it's there that I developed many of my political ideas." [/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]Doris Kearns Goodwin, who chatted with Obama during the primaries about her book on Lincoln's Cabinet, Team of Rivals, has said that both men share "an internal confidence and a certain serenity to not get rattled."[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]Sean Wilentz, a professor of history at Princeton University, called the Obama-Lincoln comparison "tortured" and "absurd" during the primaries, when he was supporting Hillary Rodham Clinton. In an interview Tuesday, he argued that, unlike Obama, Lincoln had been involved in national politics as a state party leader for 28 years before he ran for president. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]Still, Wilentz said, there is no harm in Obama evoking Lincoln, as long as people realize Obama will rise or fall on his own merits. "Whatever works," Wilentz said.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]The Bible is part of the collections of the Library of Congress. It was purchased specifically for Lincoln's swearing-in ceremony on March 4, 1861, the inaugural committee said in its statement. Obama would be the first president sworn in using it since Lincoln in 1861. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]"President-elect Obama is deeply honored that the Library of Congress has made the Lincoln Bible available for use during his swearing-in," Presidential Inaugural Committee Executive Director Emmett Beliveau said in a statement. "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."[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]The use of Lincoln's Bible fits the inaugural theme, "A New Birth of Freedom," a phrase Lincoln used in his Gettysburg Address that the inaugural committee selected to mark the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth.Obama would become the first president to use a historically significant Bible at his swearing in since George H.W. Bush, who placed his hand on the one that had been used to swear in George Washington as the nation's first president in 1789. [/COLOR] [INDENT=1] [/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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