Obama on Lincoln:

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Abraham Lincoln understood, perhaps better than anyone, how personal liberty and self-reliance are at the heart of the American experience. But he also knew there are certain things we can only do together.

Read more in my essay for @inpursuitusa.bsky.social:

— Barack Obama (@barackobama.bsky.social) 2026-06-02T13:04:18.379Z

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1. interesting series

but there is no way in HELL Duyba wrote the one about our first president, NOPE

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2. I didn't see that one.

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4. the others are listed at the bottom of the link

yes indeed

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6. It's not bad

I saw (or rather heard it) on CSPAN a couple of weeks ago. Perhaps I was reading into things, but it seemed like a critique to Trumpism.

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8. not beefing about the actual content

just saying dumb-as-a-rock-Dubya did not write that himself, nope

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3. Obama's showing up more lately. His presence

seems to have a calming effect on me.
Everything’s going to be alright.

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5. I think he couldn't stay silent with the growing fascism

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7. "that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, ...

for the people shall not perish from the earth...."

Imagine If This Moment Was Not About The Ascent of Authoritarians, But About A New Birth Of Global Freedom...

Just Imagine.....

... that the awfulness of Trumpism could help teach rising generations throughout the world the lesson the Founders tried to teach us 250 years ago - that democracy is a far better path than autocracy and oligarchy and very much worth fighting for; and how in Hungary, in Ukraine, and in our coming elections what we may we be seeing is a spark that brings us a “new birth of freedom” here and everywhere. I closed out the night by reading the Gettysburg Address, revisiting Lincoln’s powerful challenge to dedicate ourselves to “the great task remaining before us” -

that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth....

What if we could look back at this year, 2026, ten years from now, not as one where freedom was lost but where it was renewed, restored and regained momentum? Where governments “of the people, by the people, for the people” did not perish from the earth……

...Imagine if we were to win and Elon, and Putin, and Trump, and Orban, were to lose? Imagine……

I think this is the future we want. And thus we must start imagining it, and begin building a politics that makes it far more likely.

I don’t know what that politics looks like, exactly. I don’t know what this global pro-democracy movement’s rallying cry is going to be, what symbols will animate our fight or who will lead us. But we’ve seen early pieces of it in the weary but determined eyes of Zelensky, of the grace and courage of Maria Corina Machado, of the beauty of the new Syrian currency unveiled this week…..

of the brave women in Iran throwing off their head scarves and challenging one of the most oppressive regimes in modern history…..

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9. Exceptional analysis, the Rosenberg video a giant

plus. No box left unchecked.
Thank you, pat_k for posting.