Posted on 11/19/2013 10:58:56 AM PST by andy58-in-nh
If Barack Obama had delivered the Gettysburg Address:
Four score and seven years ago, a group of exclusively white, privileged, Native-American-killing and often slave-owning land-owners brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in antiquated notions of liberty but what we now know ought to have been the Common Good, and dedicated to the proposition that all men, women, transgendered and hermaphroditic persons are entitled to equal things.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, actually deserves to endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. I have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation, fatally flawed though it may be, might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that I should do this.
But, in a larger sense, I can not dedicate -- I can not consecrate -- I can not hallow -- this ground. The brave persons, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above my current power to add or detract. For that reason, I have issued Executive Order 1863-005, providing for an additional and long-needed Presidential consecration authority.
The world will little note, nor long remember what I say here, but that’s only because video has not yet been invented, and I can see that the press corps is already getting bored. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which I have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for me, to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored corpse-men, I take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that I here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – so that this nation, under me shall have a new birth of transformative social justice -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. At least not on my watch.
I think many of those things in the first paragraph would have made people in 1863 grow quite apoplectic.
Obama would have lost that war were he in Lincoln’s place.
The South would have won the war also.
Needs more I, I, I, I, I, Me, Me, Me, Me, uuuummm, uuuuum, uuummm, uuuuuuuumms
the bride at every wedding, and the corpse at every funeral.”
...the fly on every pile.
But for the odious institution of slavery, the result might have been preferable.
And it would have been three hours of mesmerizing speechifying interlaced with puzzling buzz words.
Obama version...
“The world will note, and long remember what I say here, and it will soon forget and what they did here....”
Obama version...
“The world will note, and long remember what I say here, and it will soon forget what they did here....”
"Ummm... uhhh Forty score years, errr..."
Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, .......uh, uh....uh, uh, uh, uh, .......
forty MILLION score years
Agree 100%.
Slavery in the South was moribund in 1860. True, the Civil War hastened the end, but at enormous cost in blood and treasure. And the result embittered and alienated the states of the former Confederacy and harshened the treatment of the freedmen. It might have been altogether better if the South had been allowed to make its own terms with modernity. Of course, I was not a bondman in 1860.
Truly it is written, every drop of blood drawn by the lash shall be requited by one drawn by the sword.
Good point.
Pretty funny, in a bitterly tragic sort of way.
What took Abe Lincoln a little over two minutes to give his speech would have taken Obama over an hour to give with all of the crap he does when he’s speaking.
Oh, THAT’S funny. Thanks for a much-needed laugh re: Zero
Kathleen Murphy, Democrat running for the House of Delegates against Barbara Comstock, telling a forum in Great Falls that she believes it should law to force doctors to accept Medicare and Medicaid patients. Forced by government decree, mind you.
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