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Marked in Pgh on Thursday, January 08, 2009 3:45:57 PM
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette recently praised Obama's idea to take the oath of office on the same Bible used by Lincoln. They said it was a touching gesture. How about touched? The gall of this subterfuge is only exceeded by its arrogance. The gall comes from the presumption of the least qualified president in American history to use something handled by Honest Abe. No other president since Lincoln has had the effrontery to attempt this empty political and theatrical gesture. It's all a farce.
First, Obama is not descended from any black American slaves who were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, but is descended on his mother's side from white slave holders who suffered from it; so much for truth in advertising. Add to that fact that Obama is now the head of not the party of Lincoln (the Republicans, who were for Abolition) but of the pro-slavery, pro-Jim Crow party (the Democrats). Welcome to a production of double speak. Orwell was only off by twenty-five years.
Second, Obama may very well have occupied the same Senate seat denied to Lincoln because Lincoln was a Republican. Even though Lincoln is considered to have won the senatorial debates with Douglas, Douglas was appointed to the seat because Illinois was, as it is now, controlled by the Democrats. That is because senators were appointed by their respective states before the Seventeenth Amendment changed them into elected super stooges, as apposed to the regular representative stooges of the mob; by changing the senators from representatives of the various States in what was originally the States' house. In this regard, Gov. Blago is right while Senator and Chief Stooge Reid is wrong, as far as Blago appointing a successor to Obama in the seat. At least the Illinois governor is within his rights. Obama is out of his mind.
Third, Obama is for the virtual lifetime financial enslavement of us, the taxpayers of America, to finance the continuing indentured servitude of those who pay no taxes and who are themselves in servitude and slavery in perpetuity to the Federal government because of their dependence on Federal programs and largesse. Will he ever sign a new Emancipation Proclamation for the second group? Not likely. Well he rent out the Lincoln Bedroom, Lincoln's old office where Abe signed the Proclamation, to political contributors with cash in hand like Clinton had done in the past? Very likely. He is the last man to use the same Bible to take an oath to a document, the Constitution, that he has no intention of upholding. He is, supposedly, a Constitutional scholar. However, among liberals, that simply means he is always trying to get around its restrictions to benefit his "Precious", the Federal government. As a liberal Constitutional scholar, he is in the same company as Sen. Byrd, a former recruiter for the Ku Klux Klan.
Where is Leonard Pinth Garnell (the fictional theatrical critic played by Dan Akroyd on Saturday Night Live) to knock out the support, or plinth, from under this production and chuck this equally fictional piece of Very Bad Political Theater into the trash or dust bin of history? Obama has only four yers before he joins this empty, touched farce in the same bin.
P.S. I appreciate your comments. However, I have not been very good at answering them. This is not out of arrogance, but because I am not very familiar with email. I have made it a New Year's Resolution to become more responsive.