So was this:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Oh, that was a low blow.
Rebutting them with Lincoln's famous address.
Well done!
And, yes, I agree with the majority here. I'm tired of their crying. *I* didn't ask for only one party to be sane on the war. You liberal morons are the ones that chose to abandon domestic issues you've always considered to be your strong suit, in favor of rooting against this country during war.
Just how damn difficult would it have been to preach FDR New Deal policies and SUPPORT the war as used to be done for the majority of our history?
If you are unhappy, you made your flea ridden bed. We didn't. Infact I've been fighting to keep the last sane voice on national security in your party still a force. And ordinarily I wouldn't lend a political hand to a liberal, but you guys have forced me to in Leiberman's case.
I demanded Dean's resignation. I tried to tell you idiots to purge Kos, but you wouldn't listen. This is YOUR fault so suck it up and deal with the consequences of your irresponsible actions.
great post.
Thank you for posting the Gettysburg Address. It is appropriate even today.
What a GREAT point and SOOOOOO appropriate!
Bwahahahaaa! well done unspun!
ping post 26
(still giggling here)