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"His Gettyburg address": Obama Biographer Maraniss on Newtown Speech
Twitter ^ | Sunday, December 16, 2012 | Dave Maraniss

Posted on 12/16/2012 7:33:18 PM PST by kristinn

There were so many levels to President Obama's speech: philosophical, sorrowful determined universal, simple, beautiful...

People will long remember what Barack Obama said in Newtown...his Gettysburg address...


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To: kristinn

The stilted, disjointed, rhetoric was bad enough. However, the disingenuous body language and thinly veiled threats couched in cheap lawyerly ambiguity made this one strong argument for a two statements that should be taught in every school.

“An armed people is a free people.” and “A just government trusts it’s people rather than tries to control them.”


21 posted on 12/16/2012 7:46:53 PM PST by Steamburg (The contents of your wallet is the only language Politicians understand.)
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To: kristinn

What a bloody hypocrite Obama is. His presence demeaned those poor people. He’s a fake, phony fraud.


22 posted on 12/16/2012 7:47:07 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: kristinn

Maraniss used to sing hymms to Slick Willie and his wife all the time too. I can see where he’d be praising Barry’s anti-Bill of Rights speech as being similar to the Gettysburg Address.


23 posted on 12/16/2012 7:47:59 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (It's not about the guns. It's about the control.)
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To: kristinn

Abe Bama is of the people, by the people, and for the people.


24 posted on 12/16/2012 7:48:10 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: kristinn

I think every male supporter of Bath House Barry - especially the journ-O-listers - are latent homosexuals.


25 posted on 12/16/2012 7:48:43 PM PST by Smokeyblue
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To: combat_boots

Oops. Act III, Sc. ii


26 posted on 12/16/2012 7:49:21 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: kristinn

The SCoaMF spoke tonight?

Who knew ...

Def: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=SCoaMF


27 posted on 12/16/2012 7:49:34 PM PST by _Jim (Conspiracy theories are the favored tools of the weak-minded.)
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To: kristinn

Let no one forget that the Obama administration purposely gave guns to drug cartels hoping they would be used to commit murder for the purpose of promoting gun control.


28 posted on 12/16/2012 7:49:52 PM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (Obama being re-elected is the political equivalent of OJ being found not guilty.)
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To: kristinn

Back just after Columbine, my daughter graduated from the U of Ark. At the ceremony our former senator (Dale Bumpers)gave the most downer speech I and others have ever heard. One of the graduating students later said of the speech...”Well, I guess we all might as well kill ourselves.”.

As the program started Bumpers walked along with the rest of the staff. Knowing he was also anti-gun I had an itch to stick out my foot and trip him as I was in reach.

After his downer speech I wish I had.


29 posted on 12/16/2012 7:51:17 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (SAVE THE SUMATRAN RAT MONKEY!)
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To: kristinn

My gosh, Gettysburg was during the Civil War, a tradgedy of epic proportions. Conn. is a very sad event,

Is Marannis ignorant of history, or a partisan fool?


30 posted on 12/16/2012 7:51:17 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (Actually, they lie when it suits them! The crooked MS media must be defeated any way it can be done!)
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To: twister881

Well, I’m pretty upset now. There was no “barf alert” disclaimer in the heading. For a second I really believed this might have been something I missed. Not. Glad I wasn’t watching the game only to be interrupted by the bufoon in chief.
None are so blind as those that will not see.
Even in grief, I would have declined the offer to see this charlatan poc.

Helping keep mankind warm for 65 years.


31 posted on 12/16/2012 7:51:26 PM PST by rktman
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To: kristinn

Act 12:22 And the people gave a shout, [saying, It is] the voice of a god, and not of a man.


32 posted on 12/16/2012 7:54:52 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (SAVE THE SUMATRAN RAT MONKEY!)
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To: kristinn

‘Twitter’ should be re-named ‘Barfer’ for Barf-Tweets like that....


33 posted on 12/16/2012 7:55:25 PM PST by libertarian27 (Check my profile page for the FReeper Online Cookbook 2011)
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To: rktman

If I were a fan of football, which I am not, I could forgive them for the HEIDI interruption 44 years ago, but not the Obama interruption.


34 posted on 12/16/2012 7:58:12 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (SAVE THE SUMATRAN RAT MONKEY!)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

Let no one forget that the Obama administration purposely gave guns to drug cartels hoping they would be used to commit murder for the purpose of promoting gun control.

needed some emphasis
35 posted on 12/16/2012 7:59:25 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Marannis is another idolator.


36 posted on 12/16/2012 7:59:53 PM PST by Ray76
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To: kristinn

The guy who wrote it probably feels very good right now.

Gotta give credit where credit is due- Obama did not choke any of the times he said “God”.


37 posted on 12/16/2012 8:00:16 PM PST by DBrow
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To: kristinn

LOL- i looked over that dopes tweets...talk about infatuation- this guy does not even try to hide his left wing bias...

i read his biography on Vince Lombardi- When Pride Still Mattered...historically it was pretty good but what was annoying as all hell was Maraniass would end every chapter with his opinion of what was happening as though the reader could not think for themselves- then again hanging around liberals all his life i could understand why he felt that need...


38 posted on 12/16/2012 8:03:30 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: kristinn

Transcript of speech?


39 posted on 12/16/2012 8:07:33 PM PST by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com)
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To: kristinn

It was nothing more than a cynical political demagoguery of gun control. He danced in the blood of little children and dared anyone to defy him on his agenda.


40 posted on 12/16/2012 8:09:48 PM PST by TigersEye (Who is John Galt?)
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