Obama to take oath on Abe Lincoln's Bible

[rational thinker]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i6rM5EBT5iwVm1ccO0htD_DWip-w

"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," Beliveau said.

Unity? Wasn't there a civil war during his presidency?

 

[Mesogen]

Wasn't Lincoln an atheist? Or close to it?

Is this an accurate quote?

"The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma."

 

[nate895]

Ahh...Another reason to not like Mr. Obama, as if any of us needed a new reason. The man thinks he is the greatest POS to hit this planet since Jesus Christ, maybe Adam and Eve.

 

[wizardwatson]

Lincoln was a tool.

 

[torchbearer]

The war of nothern aggression.

The fate of our over-bearing central government was sealed in 1865.
The south should have fought until there were no humans left standing.

 

[nate895]

The south should have fought until there were no humans left standing.

Lee said that to the former Confederate Governor of Texas a few months before his death.

 

[Kotin]

lincoln was a tool.

+1776

 

[nobody's_hero]

Well, considering that he doesn't intend to uphold his oath anyway . . . does it matter?

If anyone's going to get upset, it's probably God.

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

Liar, liar, pants on fire. I don't consider myself a devoutly religious man, but there is a part of me that hopes the Bible burns off his hand whenever he utters those words.

 

[RideTheDirt]

“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.”

by:

Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865) 16th US President
Source:

Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Charleston, Illinois, September 18, 1858
(The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume III, pp. 145-146.)

"If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that."

Racist tool

How ironic can it get?

 

[garyallen59]

“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.”

by:

Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865) 16th US President
Source:

Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Charleston, Illinois, September 18, 1858
(The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume III, pp. 145-146.)

"If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that."

Racist tool

How ironic can it get?

arrgh you beat me to it.

 

[RSLudlum]

“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.”

by:

Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865) 16th US President
Source:

Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Charleston, Illinois, September 18, 1858
(The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume III, pp. 145-146.)

"If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that."

Racist tool

How ironic can it get?

Lee said that to the former Confederate Governor of Texas a few months before his death.

Quite, quite ironic given the fact that Lee thought slavery was a "policital and moral evil" (as he stated in a letter to his wife in 1856)

 

[nate895]

Quite, quite ironic given the fact that Lee thought slavery was a "policital and moral evil" (as he stated in a letter to his wife in 1856)

I have an internet copy of that letter I used for a project on Lee I did in the Eighth Grade. It pissed off the teacher. At the beginning of the project, I was a neocon wiretap, Gitmo-lover who ignored the fourth amendment, by the end I was well on my way to becoming a full-blown Constitutional secessionist.

 

[raiha]

Uh oh!! it does not bode well swearing on the bible of a Whig, Central banking, Hamiltonian, syphilitic, mercury poisoned, long-armed, socially inept warmonger

 

[Matt Collins]

 

[devil21]

A black man taking the Presidential Oath of Office on the bible of an historical atheist, after hearing a Christian-Zionist give the inaugural prayer.

I think I've seen everything now.

 

[James Madison]

“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.”

by:

Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865) 16th US President
Source:

Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Charleston, Illinois, September 18, 1858
(The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume III, pp. 145-146.)

"If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that."

Racist tool

How ironic can it get?

It's called symbolism, or ironic symbolism, at least. After all, look at how the media/government treats us--like we're a bunch of children. They know; we know; but do you think the average American knows? They're rubbing it in our faces and laughing at us as we blindly follow Obama to the slaughter. Just like all the occult symbolism throughout the western world, this is no different.

 

[James Madison]

A black man taking the Presidential Oath of Office on the bible of an historical atheist, after hearing a Christian-Zionist give the inaugural prayer.

I think I've seen everything now.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought Lincoln was deist?

 

[libertarian4321]

The war of nothern aggression.

The fate of our over-bearing central government was sealed in 1865.
The south should have fought until there were no humans left standing.

Why? That makes no sense.

What is the point of getting slaughtered with no chance of winning? That's about as absurd as Hitler's willingness to fight until his country was completely destroyed- it doesn't accomplish anything but get millions slaughtered, many of them innocents.

 

[nate895]

Why? That makes no sense.

What is the point of getting slaughtered with no chance of winning? That's about as absurd as Hitler's willingness to fight until his country was completely destroyed- it doesn't accomplish anything but get millions slaughtered, many of them innocents.

The Union, if the South would have chosen guerrilla warfare, would have given up eventually. It would have been a Vietnam-style bog down, except worse because Southerners are way better at fighting than the average Yankee.

 

[James Madison]

The Union, if the South would have chosen guerrilla warfare, would have given up eventually. It would have been a Vietnam-style bog down, except worse because Southerners are way better at fighting than the average Yankee.

Absolutely. The Southerners were much better shots than their northern foes and knew how to fight guerrilla style combat...the Union would have eventually just given up.