Posted on 11/19/2013 9:45:09 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
President Barack Obama is skipping events marking 150 years since Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. This shouldn't be a huge shock. Yes, Obama has sometimes embraced the opportunity to compare himself to Lincoln. And what a historical opportunity to miss: The nation’s first black president honoring Lincoln’s legacy in person. But parks officials point out that the last sitting president to attend a Nov. 19 event in Gettysburg was Rutherford B. Hayes. No, what’s surprising is the White House's apparent explanation for Obama’s decision to turn down an invitation offered months ago: It’s Obamacare’s fault. Specifically, the HealthCare.gov debacle.
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If he got booed by a bunch of college students on a liberal campus in Maryland, you can just imagine how the sorts of patriots who would show up to commemorate Gettysburg would greet him.
Why is he not going - really?
He probably just found out Lincoln was a Republican.
Yes, even the President is so fervently working on the fix, he is in the back room rewriting code 12 hrs a day.
Yeah, because we all know Obozo is the one working on fixing the website./s
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