There are several versions floating around and I heard someone say that Lincoln 'did not actually use the name of God'. Below is what was printed in the Chicago Tribune the next day:
Posted on 11/19/2013 4:23:03 PM PST by Kimberly GG
......."Today, to mark the anniversary, Twitter is arguing about why President Obama didn't say the words "under God" in his videotaped recitation of the speech. God bless America."......
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There are several versions floating around and I heard someone say that Lincoln 'did not actually use the name of God'. Below is what was printed in the Chicago Tribune the next day:
See #41 and make up your mind.
However, it's categorically not accurate to say that Obama removed or left out the words from his recitation. That's because there are five different copies of the Gettysburg Address penned by Lincoln himself. Three of them, versions of the speech provided by Lincoln to various fundraisers after he delivered the speech, include the phrase "under God." Those are the Everett Copy, the Bancroft Copy, and the Bliss copy. The two manuscripts believed to be written down in preparation for the speech itself omit it. Obama was reading from one of those two earlier versions, the Nicolay Copy, better known as the "first draft." The project's website now clarifies that Obama read the Nicolay copy at the request of filmmaker Ken Burns, in part because of the speech's historical significance. Its one of two manuscripts of the speech held by the Library of Congress.This kind of puts the entire thread in the "move on - nothing to see here" category.
I'm all for exposing the shortcomings of Obama and this administration. I just don't want us to veer from the truth while we are doing it.
Thank you.
Hmm. I dunno...still isnt working for me....oh well
Geezzz....in the version I remembered, Lincoln wrote it while traveling to Gettysburg by train.
(I learn somethin' new on FR almost everytime I log on!!)
Okay, looking at that and more... the Nicolay and Hays pre-speech copies do not have "under God", Everett/Bancroft/Bliss do mention "under God", and stenographer transcriptions of the actual speech wired close after it was given include "under God".
Conclusion: Early scribblings did not, but then... Lincoln meant and said "under God" in the actual address.
Bingo.
And the “Bliss” copy - which includes “under God” - is the only copy [of the 5] which Lincoln signed and dated.
It’s also worth noting that the “Bliss” version is what is literally etched in stone on the Lincoln Memorial.
Obama - and Ken Burns - can pound sand.
Oh, he read a different version than the one everyone else including Lincoln read. Oh, and Ken Burns asked him to.
And why would that be? Everyone else read the one Lincoln read, except for Obama.
Really, its not that mysterious. We’ve had his number pretty much from the beginning. He’d catch fire if he seriously invoked God’s name over the United States of America.
Remember his “reverend Wright”? Obama isn’t just a muslim or an atheist. He is at war with God.
I dont’ believe I’ve ever heard anybody Paraphrase the Gettysburg address. It’s a two minute speech. What’s to paraphrase?
Wikipedia says that printing is from the New York Times (and that they were a Republican-leaning paper then!). They also mention what the Democrats of the day thought of the speech...
The Democratic-leaning Chicago Times observed, “The cheek of every American must tingle with shame as he reads the silly, flat and dishwatery utterances of the man who has to be pointed out to intelligent foreigners as the President of the United States.”[60]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address
Sorry. Obama’s Office has “weight” to throw around, and he should have informed Ken Burns that the correct copy to be cited would be the “Bliss” copy - the ONLY copy signed and dated by Lincoln. The “Bliss” isn’t in the Library of Congress - it is enshrined in the Lincoln Bedroom at the White House.
No speech should be quoted based on a first draft. First drafts are musings - ideas being mulled. All speeches - including the Gettysburg Address - should be quoted AS GIVEN.
Obama CHOSE to quote the Address without Lincoln’s reference to God because it gave him yet another opportunity to subtly denigrate religious thought - in the same manner as when he “quotes” the Declaration of Independence.
Obama probably asked Burns if he could avoid reading the part about God. Then Burns “asked” him to read the first draft.
Due to a copyright claim from “Honest Abe...”
Remember Obama is more likely to be descended from American Slave owners than American Slaves
Even better!
The words are the words.
If he is reading the speech, he won’t break any of his personal BS by saying the words.
Or will his tongue catch fire?
He doesn’t believe in God.
He may believe in Allah.
This man is a Godless buffoon.
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