How Barack Obama's Inauguration Will be Inspired by Abraham Lincoln

Barack Obama is very much inspired by Abraham Lincoln and it will feel that way on Inauguration Day next week, reports the NY Post.

Obama’s Lincoln-like events kick off with a luncheon next Tuesday following the swearing-in ceremony that’s modeled after Lincoln’s favorite foods.

Part of the meal will be served on replicas of the china picked out by First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln at the beginning of her husband’s first term in office in 1861.

The appetizer will feature a seafood stew in puff pastry, including scallops, shrimp and lobster.

Lincoln LOVED seafood!

The main course of a “Brace of American Birds (pheasant and duck)” with sour-cherry chutney will be served with molasses sweet potatoes, which represents the root vegetables and wild game that Lincoln ate as a child.

“A New Birth of Freedom” will be the official inaugural theme.

The phrase, from the Gettysburg Address, expresses Lincoln’s hope that the sacrifice of those who died to preserve the nation would lead to “a new birth of freedom” for our nation.

And at his swearing-in ceremony, Obama will place his hand on the same Bible that Lincoln used at his first inauguration.

On Saturday, Obama will travel by train from Philadelphia to Washington, DC – part of the route taken by Lincoln during an 1861 trip, reports the NY Post.

Source: NY Post