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Local law enforcement is breathing a sigh of relief.
Presidential visits are budget-busters.
I bet if there was some type of Stalin commemoration, Obama would be sure to show up there.
PA ping.
I would not wonder about obamas decision, I'd be grateful for it.
Lincoln was not perfect...but this speech he wrote is.
So short, so very moving.
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.
O doesn’t like being compared to anyone let alone a great president
Obama has no skin in the game with “the struggle”.
Why should he care?
Praise God!
Good. The evil bastard would only desecrate hallowed ground.
I wonder if its because:
1. Just a buncha crackas died their.
2. Fear that Abe Lincoln’s ghost will kick his ass.
3. No 6 star resorts for his family and entourage to spend a week at.
4. Conflicted with tee time.
Abraham Obama
It's the Archetype American Event, can't been seen at something like that.
his family fought for the south
Obama would probably try to appear Lincolnesque, maybe speak without a TelePrompTer, and show himself as the blathering fool that he is.
On balance, my overall view of Lincoln is positive.
I am glad he won't be dishonored by the wrong first black man to become an American President.
I can think of five better candidates without breaking a sweat.
He also can't stop saying “I” and “me” in any speech, and there's no way he can praise himself over Lincoln. Nothing in it for him, so why go?
Think of all the Reagan speeches praising others and the United States of America. Obama can rarely find the time or desire to do this. He thinks he knows better.
The text of the Gettysburg address explains it. While Obama might glom on to the image of Lincoln, he wants nothing to do with Lincoln’s patriotism or understanding of America.
A common mistake is in assuming that Obama hates America. He likely does not hate it; instead he is indifferent to it and sees it as a nuisance. Socialists see nations as artificial constructs with no underlying purpose or importance. They want nations to cease to exist, and certainly if they have a homogeneous people, a unique culture and history.
This is why they adore open borders. They hope to flood nations with other peoples so that they cease being what they were, and become little more than socialist controlled districts in economic blocs.
In his time, Lincoln had to deal with such people, and found them both loathsome and dangerous. Were he to have his druthers, he would confine them in perpetuity as public menaces.
0bama’s utter disregard for this nation and its history is just appalling. His disrespect could not be more deliberate or transparent.
It isn’t about him. Why would he go? He only goes where he is the center of attention....so childish.
