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If Donald Trump gave the Gettysburg Address
Original ^ | 02/19/2017 | IronJack

Posted on 02/19/2017 7:29:05 AM PST by IronJack

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Love him or hate him, Donald Trump has a unique speaking style. It is not flowery. Nor is it eloquent, at least in its delivery. But at the core are the ideals that resonate with a public too long disenfranchised by the gradual erosion of its cherished values.

So look beyond the repetitions and the vague generalities to the heart of his words. I don't know if you'd hear Abraham Lincoln in them, but I think you'll hear authentic America.

1 posted on 02/19/2017 7:29:05 AM PST by IronJack
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To: IronJack

Good stuff! Well done.


2 posted on 02/19/2017 7:30:30 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: IronJack

Brilliant,

Yes, he talks, he has his own unique way and it certainly grabs my attention; the only other who really does that with me, is Limbuagh.


3 posted on 02/19/2017 7:31:34 AM PST by BeadCounter
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To: IronJack

LOL! :-)


4 posted on 02/19/2017 7:35:07 AM PST by CondorFlight (I)
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To: IronJack

You mean the speech where Lincoln espoused government of the people, by the people, and for the people, while waging a war against the Southern people to deny them just that?


5 posted on 02/19/2017 7:39:52 AM PST by odawg
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To: IronJack

We can all help make America Great again....Except for Ironjack....I’m going to have him investigated....He needs our help.... Bwahahaha! This is very good Ironjack! I’m sorry....That comment just popped into my head....You’ve nailed his speaking style!


6 posted on 02/19/2017 7:40:37 AM PST by docman57 (Retired but still on Duty)
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To: IronJack

Very funny, so true.


7 posted on 02/19/2017 7:42:31 AM PST by tiki
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Hilarious and I love it, but until recently Trump seldom used the word “Democrats” because he’s not political in a partisan way. He’s starting to use it now because he’s learning who the real enemy is.


8 posted on 02/19/2017 7:44:43 AM PST by zipper (In their heart of hearts, every Democrat is a communist.)
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To: IronJack

That is hilarious.

I can just imagine Dana Carvey (my favorite Trump impersonator) doing it!


9 posted on 02/19/2017 7:45:33 AM PST by PGR88
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To: odawg

My friend,

The South was defending slavery. That’s not something that can be tolerated by a society that has the power to do something about it. If the south would have just been willing to let the territories west of the Mississippi be free, slavery would have have slowly vanished in the south without a war....politics...but not war....alike it did in much of South America. Instead, the south felt threatened and wanted a slave state to match every free state. This was their fatal mistake because slavery was never a long term option. Ultimately, this is what led to war and their destruction. It’s sad because the South has a nobility about it that to this day can’t be matched by the northerners. That nobility was definitely tarnished due to slavery.


10 posted on 02/19/2017 7:50:39 AM PST by Mustangman
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To: IronJack
LOL! But you need a few more "huges" and "beautifuls". Maybe include a "big beautiful cemetery".

Now compare this to the The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation.

11 posted on 02/19/2017 7:52:44 AM PST by KarlInOhio (a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity - Pres. Eisenhower)
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To: IronJack; flaglady47
As a long-time student, critic and practitioner in the various arts of writing, it takes really good humor, good irony, good satire, good parody etc. to make me smile.

Your outstanding piece of work made me LOL!

Good piece of writing, IronJack.

Leni

12 posted on 02/19/2017 7:56:23 AM PST by MinuteGal (GO TRUMP !!!......GO PENCE !!!......Boycott Starbucks and Target !!!)
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To: IronJack

Abe Lincoln vs. Madison Avenue with Bob Newhart:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0s7lJ-NRVw


13 posted on 02/19/2017 8:04:22 AM PST by Slyfox (Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
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To: odawg

And Lincoln burned our southern states to the ground


14 posted on 02/19/2017 8:14:28 AM PST by Democrat_media (Yellen raising rates with only 1.8% growth to hurt Trump send USA to depression)
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To: Mustangman

Lincoln did not initially send his armies into the South to end slavery, but to end what he called a rebellion. It was only later, when things were going hard, and the North was questioning whether the bloodshed was worth saving the Union, that he picked up the public relation ploy of slavery. Since slavery was evil, it was ready made for his purposes. That had already been well prepared by the Abolitionists.

Read his first inaugural address. His cause for war was secession by the South, not the institution of slavery.


15 posted on 02/19/2017 8:16:13 AM PST by odawg
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To: IronJack

LoL. Nice to laugh on a gray Sunpay morn. Sounded exactly like him. Bigly. It is very fake news, but sounded bigly like him.

I enjoy Trumps lexicon and style, and yet as homey as it is, the MSM cannot seem to bash him for it like with GW Bush and Dan Quayle.

Great job. Bigly. Still winning.


16 posted on 02/19/2017 8:17:33 AM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (The GOP will see the light, because Trump will make them feel the heat.)
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To: Mustangman

“Ultimately, this is what led to war and their destruction.”

If the South was fighting for slavery, who was fighting against slavery?


17 posted on 02/19/2017 8:17:55 AM PST by jeffersondem
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To: jeffersondem

The South was fighting for freedom


18 posted on 02/19/2017 8:21:02 AM PST by Democrat_media (Yellen raising rates with only 1.8% growth to hurt Trump send USA to depression)
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19 posted on 02/19/2017 8:24:13 AM PST by Democrat_media (Yellen raising rates with only 1.8% growth to hurt Trump send USA to depression)
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To: IronJack

Love it, IronJack. You really captured Trump.


20 posted on 02/19/2017 8:27:20 AM PST by Kipp
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