Obama will attend the annual Lincoln birthday banquet put on by the Abraham Lincoln Association. I'm sure Obama will use the moment to do more than just blow out a few candles for Lincoln.
Swamp: Two years ago this month, on Feb. 10, 2007, then-Sen. Barack Obama announced his candidacy for president in Springfield, Ill., -- not far from the Abraham Lincoln museum
Next week, on Feb 12., President Obama will return to Springfield to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth.
The White House says the president will travel at the invitation of Sen. Dick Durbin, the senior senator from Illinois who helped convince Obama to run for president.
Obama has had plenty to say about Lincoln on his way to inauguration as the 44th president. On Feb. 12, in Springfield, he'll have a chance to say a lot more.
The day he announced his candidacy, in the place where Lincoln delivered his House Divided speech, the city where Obama served as a state senator, Obama spoke of the nation's "unyielding faith, that in the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it.
