Posted on 01/21/2013 4:58:43 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Barack Obama is perhaps the only modern president who has had the burden of swatting away comparisons between his own soaring rhetoric and that of our 16th president. You may recall that, in the wake of the Newtown massacre, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter David Maraniss gushed over the president’s remarks, writing, “People will long remember what Barack Obama said in Newtown,” and calling the speech “[Obama's] Gettysburg address.”
Today, thanks to MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, it took less than five minutes for the comparison to be drawn between President Obama’s second inaugural address and, well, all manner of things Lincoln. “It reminds me of another second inaugural, Lincoln’s, so much of Lincoln in that speech, from the Gettysburg Address to the second inaugural itself,” Matthews said...
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Agreed. What else would explain liberalism?
Is Matthews anything more than the sum of his erection for Obama? Does the man have a soul?
Chrissy does that every time there’s a democrat making news.
The statement about the Devil’s greatest lie was his nonexistence, is so true. People refuse to believe their ;heroes’ much less their neighbors can be anything but ‘good people’ is the bane of ‘our’ existence.
People who support liberalism and the liberals who espouse liberalism cannot by definition be ‘good people’ if we believe liberalism is evil.
And the gen-pub reject that inescapable conclusion because...well ‘just cuz’.
And round the maypole we go.
Is there anyone in the World who takes this Democratic Party political hack seriously?
Ha!! Yes!! That’s it — you read my mind .... hysterical.
And so true. He’s such a little girl.
Is there any end to this man’s insanity. He is not a stable human being and I fully expect to one day see he has topped himself. Worship of others is a fools pursuit as they will always let you down!
Mel
What’s going to happen to Tingles when the gravy train ends? Who will he worship then?
He already said that about 3 of his other speeches...at least. Someone get the hook.
In the end, he’ll bow his knee and and confess with his tongue that Christ alone is Lord and Savior.
IMHO, of course.
Well, Sissy Matthews, there are two predominant views of good ol’ Abe.
One is that he saved the union and kept the country together.
The other is that he was a bit of a tyrant who sought to destroy states rights and to put every state and each individual under the yolk of a Leviathan government that had to power to crush anyone and everything it considered a threat to the union.
So, Sissy, you may be right.
Because most of the people there were dead!?! This time still walking.
Chris Matthews is referring to how Lincoln ordered that slaves would henceforth be owned by the collective instead of by individuals?
Chris Matthews is referring to how Obama has ordered that we are now all slaves owned by the collective?
Chris Matthews is referring to how Lincoln chose that liberty died at Gettysburg?
I don’t know, but I’d bet he was playing with himself under the table when he said that. : )
Communist Tyrant Hussein Obama began his second illegal regime yesterday.
Tyrant Obama seeks revenge, and has the Democrats pledged to support his continued destruction of the United States of America.
GAME ON Obama, GAME ON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe it is like the Gettysburg address. We tend to forget people were disappointed at the time. I believe the only reason it’s hallowed today is because you can easily force schoolkids to memorize it. Certainly not because it makes sense, which it doesn’t.
Not that Obama is a smidgen of the orator and writer that was Lincoln.
“given the Civil War that Lincoln faced”
Huh? Oh, you mean the one he started.
How can anyone like him not die of embarrassment?
But wasn’t Obama’s address 1313 South Main St.
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