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Obama's Gettysburg skip may confirm Clint Eastwood's thoughts about him
Forbes ^ | November 18, 2013 | Steve Hayward

Posted on 11/19/2013 12:31:38 PM PST by Academiadotorg

It is hard to know whether to be outraged or grateful that President Obama has decided to skip the 150th anniversary of Lincoln’s famous speech at Gettysburg this week. He’s sending his secretary of the Interior (who?), when even Attorney General Eric Holder would be more appropriate. It is not Obama’s first act of diffidence or disdain for American icons; think of his casual and intermittent relationship with the American flag pin on his lapel, for example, along with some of his overseas pronouncements tacitly attesting to his ambition to embody some kind of “post-American” ethos to go along with his post-modern philosophical outlook. This slight ranks on par with Ronald Reagan or Bill Clinton skipping the 40th and 50th anniversaries of the D-Day landings at Normandy. But it certainly is a curious decision for a man who has otherwise gone to such lengths to associate himself with the Great Emancipator, and you’d think he’d love the chance to change the subject right now. Obama announced his presidential campaign on the steps of the state capital in Springfield, Illinois, in 2007, invoking the memory and image of Lincoln, and Obama chose to be sworn in—twice—on Lincoln’s Bible, after re-creating Lincoln’s train journey to the capitol in 2009. In 2005, before Obama’s presidential ambitions took shape, he spoke at the opening of the Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, where he attempted to associate himself with Lincoln, especially what he described as Lincoln’s “repeated acts of self-creation”—a phrase that doesn’t really apply to Lincoln but surely applies to Obama. James Madison Would Know Who Today's Extremists Are, And They're Not The Tea Party Can it be that Obama has sensed a limit to his own megalomania?

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho44; eastwood; gettysburg; lincoln; obama

1 posted on 11/19/2013 12:31:38 PM PST by Academiadotorg
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To: Academiadotorg
I don't see anything to criticize Barack Obama about regarding skipping the Gettysburg event - after all -

Barack Obama wouldn't know Gettysburg from apple pie and for that matter, neither would the 47% of his supporters.

2 posted on 11/19/2013 12:35:27 PM PST by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.)
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To: Academiadotorg
Can it be that Obama has sensed a limit to his own megalomania?

Simple answer...No way Jose'

3 posted on 11/19/2013 12:36:24 PM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Academiadotorg

Websites are complicated.


4 posted on 11/19/2013 12:36:43 PM PST by Pietro
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To: Don Corleone

5 posted on 11/19/2013 12:37:56 PM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: Academiadotorg
May? MAY? MAY???
6 posted on 11/19/2013 12:39:16 PM PST by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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To: JoeProBono

Yihhhhllcccckk.


7 posted on 11/19/2013 12:39:16 PM PST by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: JoeProBono

Exactly. Obama is all about Obama, all the time.

I think I’m about to have an attack of la nausée.


8 posted on 11/19/2013 12:43:21 PM PST by livius
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To: atc23

He just wants to be left alone to eat his waffle. :-)


9 posted on 11/19/2013 1:03:14 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Academiadotorg

I wouldn’t want him there desecrating that heroic site. Obama is a moral coward.


10 posted on 11/19/2013 1:09:36 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: Academiadotorg

Watch Zer0 omit God from the Gettysburg Address in this staged attempt to neutralize criticism of his absence from the 150-year remembrance ceremony:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxrXxcexc8Y


11 posted on 11/19/2013 1:12:42 PM PST by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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To: Academiadotorg

Well what the heck would you do if you were a MOOOOSlim.


12 posted on 11/19/2013 1:32:57 PM PST by Rappini (Veritas vos Liberabit)
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To: SkyDancer

Obama does have one thing in common with Lincoln: they were both skinny lawyers.


13 posted on 11/19/2013 1:58:03 PM PST by NotTallTex
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To: NotTallTex

Of course, Lincoln actually practiced law.


14 posted on 11/19/2013 2:00:53 PM PST by Bratch
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To: Academiadotorg

I think Obama just learned that Lincoln was a Republican. He is from Chicago, you know.


15 posted on 11/19/2013 2:04:13 PM PST by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: Academiadotorg

“A man’s got to know his limitations.”


16 posted on 11/19/2013 2:13:52 PM PST by RichInOC (Palin 2016: The Perfect Storm.)
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To: NotTallTex

Ah, but they also say that Lincoln was from Illinois. He was from Kentucky - Knob Creek.


17 posted on 11/19/2013 2:15:18 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: Academiadotorg


18 posted on 11/19/2013 2:16:05 PM PST by Diogenesis
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To: Bratch

Lincoln not only practiced law he was pretty darn good at it. Of course he never had the disadvantage of having attended law school.


19 posted on 11/19/2013 5:57:07 PM PST by JohnBovenmyer (Obama been Liberal. Hope Change!)
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To: Academiadotorg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFHh75P9rNE&sns=em


20 posted on 01/14/2014 10:46:53 PM PST by Jmathes
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