{"id":3265,"date":"2008-12-26T10:03:19","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T17:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/12\/26\/obama-to-be-sworned-in-on-a-rushmore-presidents-swearing-in-bible\/"},"modified":"2008-12-26T10:03:57","modified_gmt":"2008-12-26T17:03:57","slug":"obama-to-be-sworned-in-on-a-rushmore-presidents-swearing-in-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/12\/26\/obama-to-be-sworned-in-on-a-rushmore-presidents-swearing-in-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama to be sworned in on a Rushmore President’s Swearing-in Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a bit of a brohauhau over Barak Obama’s use of Abraham Lincoln’ bible in his inauguration ceremony.\u00c2\u00a0 Or, supposedly there is.\u00c2\u00a0 Actually mostly what I see is that Obama’s use of Lincoln’s bible is a jumping off point to trump up Lincoln as a “War President” and Obama as a Copperhead — bleh them <\/a>and bleh him<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, it will be interesting and portentious to say the least to see how Obama winds through policies to Afghanistan (and the Pakistan border region) and Iraq, I suppose.\u00c2\u00a0 (To appease the Weekly Standard writer, I am sort of pleased to see that in my search, I did find one of those “Bush Hitler” postings <\/a>that you can find if you look.\u00c2\u00a0 Don’t worry… the Obama Hitler postings are surfacing about\u00c2\u00a0— I encourage you to tie them down with that image<\/a>, even though there’s complications with that one.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe it’s a good time to switch models for\u00c2\u00a0overwrought dictator comparisons …\u00c2\u00a0it’s all about Mussolini!<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Presidents tend to evoke presidents who history has judged well.\u00c2\u00a0 The Mount Rushmore Mafia and a handful of figures surrounding them.\u00c2\u00a0 For instance, Reagan’s Coolidge fetish was largely in private or amongst sympaticos — he didn’t much quote Coolidge in his public speeches.\u00c2\u00a0 Or maybe he did…\u00c2\u00a0all eight of the\u00c2\u00a0Reagan years were all eight (minus a few months) of my\u00c2\u00a0most formative of years … I wasn’t paying attention at the time.\u00c2\u00a0 But here in the honeymoon period, Obama is paralleled to Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt, detractors reach for Carter, as detractors of Bush now reach for Hoover.<\/p>\n

So the incoming Obama Administration’s high faluting press release <\/a>notwithstanding, Obama could very easily have just gone with … Jefferson’s Bible<\/a> (or Keith Ellison’s Quran).\u00c2\u00a0 But the “Team of Rivals” theory which is being injected into Obama’s admistration — an item which, truth be told, worked badly for President Lincoln<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0would not be\u00c2\u00a0meshed in with the “triumph over\u00c2\u00a0slavery” history.<\/p>\n

Obama should have surprised and stumped everyone and released a high faluting press release announcing that he is going to be swearing in with the same bible used by President Chester Arthur.\u00c2\u00a0 The idea here is that he is, I don’t know, that even as a man\u00c2\u00a0who came out of Illinois politics, he is\u00c2\u00a0making a clean break from the corruption of the Blagoeviches of the world, just as even though Arthur was a Stawlart, he reformed Civil Service?\u00c2\u00a0 That and they both have funny names, so there’s that legacy to continue.\u00c2\u00a0 As good a message to send as any, I say, albeit probably a tad too obscure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is a bit of a brohauhau over Barak Obama’s use of Abraham Lincoln’ bible in his inauguration ceremony.\u00c2\u00a0 Or, supposedly there is.\u00c2\u00a0 Actually mostly what I see is that Obama’s use of Lincoln’s bible is a jumping off point to trump up Lincoln as a “War President” and Obama as a Copperhead — bleh […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}