The poet and history junkie in me are hoping that Obama (or his speechwriter) noticed the parallels above.
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address mentioned the Founding, “four score and seven years ago.”
Well, 2009 is seven score and four (144) years from the year the Civil War was won and slavery ended.
It’d just add a nice rhetorical touch. Hope somebody else noticed it in time to put it in the inaugural address.