[Oldexpat]

I don’t think he would get a very good reception at the meeting. The audience is not screened like most of his events.

[loveliberty2]

See for more on Lincoln.

[Dr.Deth]

"...The Gettysburg Address, delivered on November 19, 1863, as inscribed on the South Wall of the Lincoln Memorial:

The Gettysburg Address, as telepromptered by Barack Hussein Obama on the website http://www.learntheaddress.org:

...that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this the nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom...

No other person reading the Gettysburg Address on that site made that omission. Shades of "endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights."

Is this guy Damien Thorne, or what?

[Bratch]

The Gettysburg Address

as read by Johnny Cash

[Lonely Bull]

Yo Aber, I’m really happy for you, I’ll let you finish, but Obama is one of the best orators of all time. One of the best orators of all time!

[Verginius Rufus]

Daniel Henninger was on "Fox & Friends" discussing Obama's decision to boycott the event.

We can't really know Obama's motive since he won't say (and would probably be lying if he gave us a reason), but Henninger talked about how Obama's agenda is the opposite of what Lincoln talked about in his Gettysburg Address. "New birth of freedom" vs. more power to the government.