Please join me in a big Happy Birthday to my favorite Republican!!!

[DFW]

Abraham Lincoln, who did you think? :P

Of course, today, he would be a libbrul, being shouted down by Hannity on Fox
and Limbaugh on Hational Hate Radio. Times have changed.

[kiva]

1. Watching MSNBC coverage of the celebration.

They just requested that everyone remain standing for the religious invocation. This for a man who never formally joined a church and managed (as historian Eric Foner notes) to be inaugurated twice without a minister present. I'm waiting for some religion to do a postmortum baptism of Lincoln--assuming, that is, that the Mormons haven't beat them to it.

PS., Yes Lincoln was a good president.

[DFW]

2. I didn't even know

I'm in Germany, and even here Lincoln's 200th birthday was on page 1 of all the newspapers.
We don't get MSNBC here (or ABC or Fox or anything else from the States except CNN)