PhotoObama: 5,600 Cupcakes = Tastiest Obama-Lincoln Comparison Ever

By GottaLaff

Suh-weetest!

Zilly Rosen, a pastry artist in Buffalo, took her treats to Washington this weekend, constructing side-by-side portraits of Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln using more than 5,600 cupcakes. [...]

Ms. Rosen and a few helpers assembled the mural in a matter of hours Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. [...] The video and a time-lapse feature of the portrait’s journey from construction to crumbs will be available on the museum’s blog, Eye Level, next week.

Ms. Rosen, the proprietor of Zillycakes, a custom cake shop in Buffalo, first fused gastronomy and politics on Election Day, creating a 1,240-cupcake portrait of Mr. Obama, which she served to volunteers at his campaign’s Buffalo headquarters Nov. 5, according to her Web site.

“It started as a crazy love poem in food dedicated to an amazing candidate,” Rosen wrote. She calls her work “equal parts installation, performance, homage, and dessert.”

Yum and yummier.

Barack Obama's Speech at the 2009 Lincoln Banquet

Part one above, part two below.

President Obama's Speech Marking Lincoln's 200th Birthday

Via FDL.

President Obama Helps Reopen Ford's Threatre

Classy, classy, classy.

Hannity- “Are Democrats trying to steal Abraham Lincoln's legacy?”

If Hannity and his guest sat and recited the phone book backwards and with a Slavic accent it would make more sense than this bit. Count the atrocities. h/t Newshounds.

Obama Will Eat Like Lincoln on Inauguration Day

Oy. The only good thing is if you read the article, it's obvious that the Inauguration Committee picked the menu, not Obama. But that won't stop the wingers from screeching as reading comprehension was never their strength. You can actually check out the recipes here.

On Inauguration Day, not only will President-elect Obama be sworn in using the Bible that was used to swear in President Abraham Lincoln, he will dine like Lincoln as well.

The luncheon that will be served in Congress's Statuary Hall to the president-elect and vice president-elect and their families -- as well as congressional leaders, justices of the Supreme Court and pending members of the Obama Cabinet -- will be modeled after foods that Lincoln ate and enjoyed.

The first course will even be served on replicas of the china picked out by then-first lady Mary Todd Lincoln at the beginning of her husband's term in office.

The luncheon is being put together by the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, which has chosen as its theme "A New Birth of Freedom," celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of President Abraham Lincoln on Feb. 12.

(snip)

The luncheon's appetizer will be seafood stew in puff pastry -- scallops, shrimp, lobster -- served as a nod to the 16th president's love of stewed and scalloped oysters.

The main course -- duck breast with sour-cherry chutney and herb-roasted pheasant served with molasses sweet potatoes and winter vegetables -- is a nod to the root vegetables and wild game that Mr. Lincoln favored growing up on the frontier in Kentucky and Indiana.

The apple cinnamon sponge cake dessert is a nod to Mr. Lincoln's love of apples and apple cake.

Obama to use Lincoln Bible for swearing in

FYI, the image is the real bible.

"Washington, D.C. - On January 20th, President-elect Barack Obama will take the oath of office using the same Bible upon which President Lincoln was sworn in at his first inauguration. The Bible is currently part of the collections of the Library of Congress. Though there is no constitutional requirement for the use of a Bible during the swearing-in, Presidents have traditionally used Bibles for the ceremony, choosing a volume with personal or historical significance. President-elect Obama will be the first President sworn in using the Lincoln Bible since its initial use in 1861.

'President-elect Obama is deeply honored that the Library of Congress has made the Lincoln Bible available for use during his swearing-in,' said Presidential Inaugural Committee Executive Director Emmett Beliveau. 'The President-elect is committed to holding an Inauguration that celebrates America's unity, and the use of this historic Bible will provide a powerful connection to our common past and common heritage.' "

The skinny on Obama and Lincoln

By GottaLaff

This is so beyond ludicrous that I had to re-emphasize the obvious comparison:

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H/t: Commenter Chris for reminding me of the Lincoln comparison