Posted on 10/31/2013 7:51:26 PM PDT by chessplayer
GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — President Barack Obama will not attend next month’s event marking the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address in Pennsylvania, national park officials said.
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will instead represent the administration the Nov. 19 sesquicentennial, officials at Gettysburg National Military Park said Wednesday.
McPherson, a top Civil War historian who won the Pulitzer for “Battle Cry of Freedom,” said he was surprised by Obama’s decision.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government
Well at least the ground will remain pure and unsoiled.
Must conflict with tee time.
I wish he wood offer a calendar of himself I would buy and torch it.
“would” bad spelling night.
Brings back memories of having to recite from memory in my 8th grade history class. Wonder if kids today have to memorize it.
My son, his dad, and his (my son) grandfather made a trip just last month to see Gettysburg. Said it was just awesome. Great trip for 3 generations of guys in the family to make together.
We lost and now Yankees are invading en masse yet again in middle TN
I’m not going either....
I think I’ll retrace Forrest’s rout of Sturgis just for fun
Lol
Obama and Obamunism are only interested in enslaving people, not freeing them (Obamacare,anti-Islam blasphemy prosecutions, anti-Christian indoctrination in the military, betraying allies to the Moslem Brotherhood in Egypt and Tunisia, trying to betray the freedom holders of Honduras to a psycho red Zelaya, etc).
To #36> re “im shocked he hadn’t ordered a new calendar” with him in it.
JUST YOU WAIT!
Class war is a two way street and the domestic communist apparatchik and parasites who vote for them are in for a rude awakening.
Vacation Guy probably has a lot on his calendar that day, homo sex with Reggie Love, golf, and a CPUSA conference call.
Good news! He won’t be defiling hallowed ground.
They can’t control the attendees and are afraid he would be heartily booooed.
Probably because God is named in the address.
There was a great article in PennLive..
http://blog.pennlive.com/gettysburg-150/2013/10/obama_chickens_out_skips_getty.html
Naw, it was a Looooooooooong term win!
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