Lincoln & Obama

I am doing my best to ignore the Obama orgasm, and yet it is almost impossible to get completely away from the “never met a lie we wouldn’t tell” media. Consequently, I have heard that Obama is going to extensive lengths to invoke the specter of Abraham Lincoln. Obama is using the Bible to be sworn in that was used by Lincoln when he took the oath of office. Also there is the reality that he took a Lincolnesque train trip from Illinois to Washington DC. There is even word that at one of the festivities after the inauguration they are going to eat the same type of food served after Lincoln was inaugurated on China that is a replica of that used in 1861.

Now, I know I am cynical to a fault but I find myself asking what is the meaning of this Lincoln parroting. Is Obama cleverly signaling that he, like Lincoln’s dispossessing of the South in favor of Northern industrialists, is intent on dispossessing one part of the population in the interest of another? Is Obama signaling that he, like Lincoln before him, is intent of trampling on the civil rights of Americans who oppose his policies? Is Obama signaling that he, like Lincoln before him, is going to grow the power and authority of the centralized state? Is Obama signaling that he, like Lincoln before him, is going to institute the draft? Is Obama signaling that he, like Lincoln before him, is intent on spending outrageous sums of money on internal improvements?

There are other similarities between Lincoln and Obama. The rhetoric of each is (was) mesmerizing. They were (are) both inexperienced lawyers from Illinois upon taking office. They each had (have) a cursory attachment to Christianity all the while explicitly denying its essence. They each had remote relationships with their Fathers.

Lincoln was great for America if you belonged to the special interest group that he represented. If you weren’t part of that group then Lincoln was death.

Or maybe Obama just likes stovepipe hats.

Author: jetbrane

I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling. I am postmillennial in my eschatology. Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity Reformed in my Soteriology Presuppositional in my apologetics Familialist in my family theology Agrarian in my regional community social order belief Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place Some of my favorite authors, Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc. My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture. Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him. View all posts by jetbrane