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Obama to be a no-show at Gettysburg 150th anniversary ceremony
The Washington Times ^ | 10/31/2013 | Ben Wolfgang

Posted on 10/31/2013 8:18:32 AM PDT by markomalley

President Obama has declined an invitation to speak at next month’s ceremony marking the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address.

The event, slated for Nov. 19 at the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, instead will feature Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and renowned historian James McPherson as the keynote speakers, the Gettysburg National Military Park said in a press release.

“President Obama will not attend and the Secretary of Interior will represent the administration,” the park pointed out in the first paragraph of its press release.

It’s unclear why Mr. Obama, a noted admirer of President Lincoln, declined the invitation. Among other tributes to the 16th president, Mr. Obama used the Lincoln Bible at both of his inauguration ceremonies, in 2009 and 2013.

Skipping the event may not make many waves in Washington, but it’s already causing an uproar in Pennsylvania.

Writing for the Harrisburg, Pa., newspaper the Patriot News, journalist Donald Gilliland said the president’s decision “is nothing less than a profile in cowardice.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


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To: PghBaldy

Im glad the lyin traitor wont stain that hallowed ground!


81 posted on 10/31/2013 9:52:47 AM PDT by ReaganÜberAlles
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To: Fresh Wind
Obama’s speech would have to contain the lie /line “You can keep you freedom if you like it” To be any where close to being remembered a year from now,
82 posted on 10/31/2013 9:56:59 AM PDT by huskerone (Defeat the RINO's in 2014)
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To: markomalley

He does not believe in the core meaning of the Gettysburg Address, and most Americans wearing their Thinking Caps do not believe in Obama’s integrity anyway, so for once, we’re even.


83 posted on 10/31/2013 10:02:11 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: markomalley


84 posted on 10/31/2013 10:14:42 AM PDT by Iron Munro (When a killer screams 'Allahu Akbar' you don't need to be mystified about a motive.)
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To: markomalley

He won’t show up because Gettysburg is a very complicated matter, and he likely couldn’t even name the main generals in the battle.


85 posted on 10/31/2013 10:17:01 AM PDT by Theodore R. (The grand pooh-bahs have spoken: "It's Jebbie's turn!" to LOSE!)
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To: duffee

I would think his favorite president other than himself would have to be clintoid.


86 posted on 10/31/2013 10:18:09 AM PDT by Theodore R. (The grand pooh-bahs have spoken: "It's Jebbie's turn!" to LOSE!)
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To: duffee

The American people don’t understand socialism and don’t see an American president as a “socialist”. They are, we may agree, vastly uninformed.


87 posted on 10/31/2013 10:19:19 AM PDT by Theodore R. (The grand pooh-bahs have spoken: "It's Jebbie's turn!" to LOSE!)
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To: ottbmare

I don’t know; there are many historians firmly on the left and admire Obama.


88 posted on 10/31/2013 10:20:20 AM PDT by Theodore R. (The grand pooh-bahs have spoken: "It's Jebbie's turn!" to LOSE!)
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To: Windflier

I bet he could not name all the presidents by name in order of service. And while such might be considered “trivia”, it would be nice if a president could name all of his predecessors. For instance, if a reporters asked him when Andrew Jackson was President, I suspect he wouldn’t have a clue.


89 posted on 10/31/2013 10:22:14 AM PDT by Theodore R. (The grand pooh-bahs have spoken: "It's Jebbie's turn!" to LOSE!)
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To: markomalley

I wouldn’t want him soiling any place of honor, anywhere.


90 posted on 10/31/2013 10:27:11 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: markomalley
Seven Score and Ten years later, Obama brought forth on this continent a transformed nation full of disdain and misery, bankruptcy and debt, racial hatred and class warfare, to test whether that former nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated could possibly remain on the face of this Earth...
91 posted on 10/31/2013 10:32:50 AM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: markomalley

Clown Prince nobama will refuse to be at any public event at which the crowd is not 100% controlled. He doesn’t do booing, ridiculing, the throwing of rotton vegetables or hissing well. Clown Prince nobama will not be questioned or disrespected.


92 posted on 10/31/2013 10:34:45 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: markomalley

After what that POS did to our veterans during the Obama-Reid shutdown, Obama shouldn’t be allowed to set foot in any Federal Park or Soldiers’ National Cemetery.

Impeach and Imprison...


93 posted on 10/31/2013 10:42:30 AM PDT by Gator113 ( Cruz, Palin and Lee speak for me, most everyone else is just noise.)
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To: Theodore R.

I’m sure Obama knows a lot more about the history of Marxism, than he does about U.S. history. Everything about our nation is illegitimate in his mind, and not worthy of his acknowledgement. The man flat out hates this country.


94 posted on 10/31/2013 10:47:41 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Theodore R.
I don’t know; there are many historians firmly on the left and admire Obama.

By "historians" I meant not mainstream historians but the local WBTS researchers and writers as well as the "living historians" who study the era and show up at the annual Remembrance Day ceremonies and festivities that Gettysburg hosts. There are only a few liberals among them.

95 posted on 10/31/2013 10:52:20 AM PDT by ottbmare (the OTTB mare, now a proud Marine Mom)
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To: markomalley

Barry does NOT admire Lincoln.

He only admires HIMSELF.

That is another plank in his carefully crafted campaign to fool America.


96 posted on 10/31/2013 11:09:21 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: tanknetter

What did Dodo do?


97 posted on 10/31/2013 11:15:50 AM PDT by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: JPG; potlatch; PhilDragoo

TOTUS had a glitch in downloading the last phrase.


98 posted on 10/31/2013 11:46:18 AM PDT by ntnychik
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To: gundog

Talked about herself (something she’s very good at), LBJ and how Gettysburg was really all about every Liberal cause out there today. Including (I think) gay marriage.

Although I have no evidence of it, I’m convinced that she was pretty well trashed from drinking all the small bottles of booze in her hotel minibar ...


99 posted on 10/31/2013 12:52:43 PM PDT by tanknetter
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To: markomalley

He has no connection to slavery, unless of course his ancestors sold other black folk into bondage.


100 posted on 10/31/2013 2:02:58 PM PDT by Gamecock (Many Atheists take the stand: "There is no God AND I hate Him.")
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