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[Ya-ta Boy]

After the epic scale of this election, the most expensive in history, Democrats were preparing for inaugural celebrations on a grand scale in January.

There were expectations yesterday that the event could draw crowds of a million or more people hoping to witness a momentous day for the United States.

The Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein, who is chairing the committee arranging the inauguration, plans to highlight the historic nature of Obama's election and draw the theme for the celebrations from Lincoln's Gettysburg address.

Feinstein spoke yesterday of the potent symbolism of Obama looking from the steps of Congress down the Mall to the Lincoln Memorial, revisiting the words of Lincoln about reuniting a divided nation in his Gettysburg address. Next year marks the bicentenary of Lincoln's birth. [Feb. 12, 1809]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/06/us-elections-barack-obama-lincoln

The relevant parts:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...

It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated 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.

I suspect some of the far right wing are not going to like this. There's more than one of them who do not like Lincoln.