Lines which have more meaning from THAT person

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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There’s a kind of understated significance when someone says something that would be ordinary coming from most people but holds just a little extra meaning coming from that specific person. Like if you heard someone call you “pretty fast,” and turned to look and it was, say, a famous sprinter. Or Chuck Yeager. :slight_smile:

I ran across a case of this today that bemused me.

Every President, regardless of party, makes “routine” official proclamations, of course.

A line the caught my eye in this year’s African-American History Month presidential proclamation. The same line appears in the 2009 proclamation (I just checked) and probably in all of them. A quiet sentence. It’s purely boilerplate. Boring, really.

But, to me, it has a little bit of extra historical weight behind it coming from this particular guy:

[QUOTE=The President]
Now, Therefore, I, Barack Obama, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim February 2009 as National African American History Month.
[/QUOTE]

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Just February 2009, eh? You’d think they could make that an annual thing.
:slight_smile:

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They do, I read this year’s and went back to quote the one from 2009 because it was Obama’s first opportunity to say it and thus seemed marginally more dramatic.