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To: SoConPubbie
Get back to me when you have educated yourself.

You are the one who compared her to Lincoln. And unlike Sarah, he wrote this all by himself:

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.


76 posted on 11/05/2010 10:54:28 PM PDT by microgood
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To: microgood

Were you with him when he wrote that? Then how do you know he “wrote it all by himself” other than the mythology that started as he lay on that rooming house bed, dying? If they can make up tons of stuff about Obama, JFK, FDR and others, why do we doubt that they were doing the same in the 19th Century?


79 posted on 11/05/2010 10:58:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. ~Mencken)
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To: microgood
You are the one who compared her to Lincoln. And unlike Sarah, he wrote this all by himself:

Nice head-fake and trying to change the direction of the conversation again.

Your original post was about Sarah not having the necessary experience.

You've as yet to admit you were wrong after I presented the factual comparison of the actual executive and representative experience of the two.

Yes Lincoln wrote a wonderful speech in the manner and style of prose of the day.

If you really had any knowledge of Palin's speeches, positions, etc., you would know she does a great job of presenting with passion, directness, and clarity of conservative though her positions in the manner and style of prose of this day and age.

Your dishonesty on ducking my response to your original post is telling.


111 posted on 11/05/2010 11:54:07 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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