It's Obama's Day....

To be issued on 9 February 2009

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us survive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
- (Quote from Abraham Lincoln's inaugural speech)



Hi ! The world's eyes are on Obama's Coronation ceremony which is going to be held tomorrow, the D - Day of Barrack Obama. Here is the first stamp issued by Liberia to honour new President of United States. Collectors are also looking forward to new stamps honoring the upcoming 200th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's birth. A set of four Lincoln stamps is among the new issues from the United States to be issued on February 9, 2009. Each stamp depicts Lincoln at a different stage of his life: as a rail-splitter, lawyer, politician and president. The stamp honoring him as president is shown here. The stamp also shows the autograph of Abraham Lincoln. A very nice stamp for those who collect autographs on stamps.The set will be issued in a pane of 20, with the four stamps repeated five times in horizontal strips of four. As 20th January is a special day in the history of USA, this special post is dedicated to all American people ! ..............Have a Nice Time !.....

When Barack Obama takes the oath of office on January 20, he will do so upon the Bible that his personal political hero, Abraham Lincoln, used for his own swearing in, in 1861. Lincoln, America's 16th president, served from 1861 until his assassination in 1865 and is widely revered for having preserved national unity by winning the Civil War and ending the practice of slavery. This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, who, like Obama, was an Illinois legislator before he rose to the presidency. Using Lincoln's Bible is one of a few personal touches that Obama has put on the inaugural ceremony. Others include the inclusion of soul singer Aretha Franklin, evangelical megachurch leader Rick Warren, and a young poet to deliver the traditional inaugural poem.Even without those details, the country's 56th presidential inauguration would be anything but traditional: Obama is the first black president elected in the country's history -- a milestone many Americans considered impossible not long ago. Obama will be sworn into office one day after the country observes Martin Luther King Day, a holiday that honors the inspirational black civil rights leader.