Talk about being supercilious. He is not even the nominee yet and he’s talking about redecorating the White House:
“You have all these mementos of Abraham Lincoln, but you have this flat-screen TV in there,” Obama told the crowd at the outdoor event.
“I thought to myself, ‘Now, who stays in the Lincoln Bedroom and watches [ESPN's] ‘Sports Center’? You’ve got your clicker. . . . That didn’t seem to me to be appropriate. So I might take out the TV, I don’t know.
“You should read when you’re in the Lincoln Bedroom! Reread the Gettysburg Address. Don’t watch TV.”
He himself might reread Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address:
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Or perhaps, Lincoln’s Cooper Union Address:
What is the frame of government under which we live?
The answer must be: “The Constitution of the United States.” That Constitution consists of the original, framed in 1787, (and under which the present government first went into operation,) and twelve subsequently framed amendments, the first ten of which were framed in 1789.
Pity that your vote on FISA destroys the Fourth Amendment.