“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.”

Abraham Lincoln during his 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.)

This ridiculous news tells me one of two things. Either Barack Obama, like so many, is completely uninformed about the racist, Constitution violating, traitorous scum that was our 16th President. Or he is using the image which the vast majority of people associate with justice and purity of political thought as a device to manipulate them into thinking he is one in the same. I hope his rationale for using the Bible is the former, but I’m afraid it’s the latter. Pure manipulation.

Here’s the irony of it.

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

- Abraham Lincoln

Now I found this quote without reference, source or citation. But even without it, given his actions how God-fearing could he really have been? Someone who thrusts America into a senseless Civil War which claims 600,000 lives and injures hundreds of thousands more. All the while jailing his dissenters and making racist remarks about the very people he is “known” for having liberated. What a good guy, we should all hope to achieve his “greatness”.

President-elect Obama, like so many other politicians, is simply preying on the sympathies of the American people. Nothing more to see here folks.