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If Barack Obama had delivered the Gettysburg Address
me | 11/19/2013 | andy58-in-nh

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.


TOPICS: Humor; Politics
KEYWORDS: bho44; civilwar; gettysburg; gettysburgaddress; history; obama
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It's always about Obama: the bride at every wedding, and the corpse at every funeral.
1 posted on 11/19/2013 10:58:56 AM PST by andy58-in-nh
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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.


2 posted on 11/19/2013 11:02:51 AM PST by Olog-hai
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The South would have won the war also.


3 posted on 11/19/2013 11:03:15 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (Did the ancients know they were ancients? Or did they see themselves as presents?)
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To: andy58-in-nh

Needs more I, I, I, I, I, Me, Me, Me, Me, uuuummm, uuuuum, uuummm, uuuuuuuumms


4 posted on 11/19/2013 11:04:34 AM PST by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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the bride at every wedding, and the corpse at every funeral.”

...the fly on every pile.


5 posted on 11/19/2013 11:06:47 AM PST by albie
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The South would have won the war also.

But for the odious institution of slavery, the result might have been preferable.

6 posted on 11/19/2013 11:08:02 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (Cogito, ergo armatum sum.)
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Obama's version would have lasted as long as the speaker who spoke before Lincoln, something like three hours.

And it would have been three hours of mesmerizing speechifying interlaced with puzzling buzz words.

7 posted on 11/19/2013 11:10:06 AM PST by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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Obama version...

“The world will note, and long remember what I say here, and it will soon forget and what they did here....”


8 posted on 11/19/2013 11:12:46 AM PST by Moorka
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Obama version...

“The world will note, and long remember what I say here, and it will soon forget what they did here....”


9 posted on 11/19/2013 11:13:46 AM PST by Moorka
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Impossible. Tele-prompters had not been invented yet.
"Ummm... uhhh Forty score years, errr..."

10 posted on 11/19/2013 11:14:25 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, .......uh, uh....uh, uh, uh, uh, .......


11 posted on 11/19/2013 11:15:14 AM PST by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

forty MILLION score years


12 posted on 11/19/2013 11:15:42 AM PST by bonfire
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To: andy58-in-nh

Agree 100%.


13 posted on 11/19/2013 11:16:01 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (Did the ancients know they were ancients? Or did they see themselves as presents?)
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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.


14 posted on 11/19/2013 11:19:18 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Doing the same thing and expecting different results is called software engineering.)
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"If Barack Obama had delivered the Gettysburg Address"

Well for one thing had he given it the National Anthem would most likely be 'Dixie' and that wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing.
15 posted on 11/19/2013 11:20:05 AM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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Impossible. Tele-prompters had not been invented yet. "Ummm... uhhh Forty score years, errr..."

Good point.

16 posted on 11/19/2013 11:22:34 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (Cogito, ergo armatum sum.)
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Pretty funny, in a bitterly tragic sort of way.


17 posted on 11/19/2013 11:23:12 AM PST by Maceman (Just say "NO" to tyranny.)
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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.


18 posted on 11/19/2013 11:32:13 AM PST by puppypusher
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Oh, THAT’S funny. Thanks for a much-needed laugh re: Zero


19 posted on 11/19/2013 11:34:56 AM PST by kitkat (STORM THE HEAVENS WITH PRAYERS FOR OUR COUNTRY.)
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Once Obooboo's de facto version of socialism is established, workers will not be allowed to quit or change their jobs without government permission, and they would be ordered to work wherever or however the government required them.This is the forced labor version of the slavery of socialism. One rat congressperson has already applied this idea to doctors:

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.

20 posted on 11/19/2013 11:36:53 AM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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