Maybe because it came at the end of the day or maybe other "news" got in the way, but so far I haven't found video or transcript of the speech President Obama made in Illinois on Thursday honoring the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln. It was an excellent speech--maybe an immortal one--so this is just a small footnote, but it is worth recording that after noting that Lincoln created the National Academy of Science, President Obama mentioned that this is also the birthday of Charles Darwin (yes, that's Lincoln and Darwin in the photos, both closer to their births than the usual pictures), and that science is going to be key to American progress and even economic recovery. It should not go unnoticed then that Darwin, the celebrated bugaboo of the fundamentalist Rabid Right, got a shout-out from the President on the birthday of his hero, Abraham Lincoln.
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