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Why President Obama Didn't Say 'Under God' While Reading the Gettysburg Address
The Wire Dot Com/Yahoo ^ | November 19, 2013 | Abby Ohlheiser

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government
KEYWORDS: bho44; gettysburg; gettysburgaddress; husseinobama; obama; pagans; undergod
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....."Far from an issue of omission, the fake controversy now dominating the anniversary of the important speech is more or less about conservative perceptions of the president's arrogance. Even though comparing oneself to Lincoln, paraphrasing his words, imbuing new meaning to the Gettysburg Address itself is a routine practice for politicians from every party, there's a certain special fury summoned when Obama does it. If anything, Ken Burns's project demonstrates that no matter what critics might feel, everyone deserves to access, personify and celebrate the meaning of the speech. No matter which version it may be."...
1 posted on 11/19/2013 4:23:03 PM PST by Kimberly GG
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To: Kimberly GG

“fake controversy”

Is the Gettysburg Address subject to interpretation?


2 posted on 11/19/2013 4:24:03 PM PST by Kimberly GG ("Path to Citizenship" Amnesty candidates will NOT get my vote!)
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To: Kimberly GG

The link is dead....


3 posted on 11/19/2013 4:24:46 PM PST by uncitizen (Obama said 'period', but he meant 'asterisk'.)
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To: Kimberly GG

...for the same reason Pelosi might burst into flames if sprinkled with holy water?


4 posted on 11/19/2013 4:25:19 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: Kimberly GG

Because to say “Under Me” might have been a little over the top?


5 posted on 11/19/2013 4:26:19 PM PST by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: Kimberly GG
There is NOTHING about the undocumented Impostor
which is American. NOTHING.


6 posted on 11/19/2013 4:27:30 PM PST by Diogenesis
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To: Kimberly GG

I have little doubt that Obozo is an atheist.


7 posted on 11/19/2013 4:27:39 PM PST by AlexW
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To: Kimberly GG

“Under Mohammed” might have got him arrested for promoting child porn?


8 posted on 11/19/2013 4:27:56 PM PST by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?s)
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To: Kimberly GG

He wanted to say “under Allah” but thought better of it.


9 posted on 11/19/2013 4:29:03 PM PST by Second Amendment First
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To: Kimberly GG

As Obobo is not a American why would he give a sh-t about American history? As for G_D his goes by another name. People buy a clue for $200.


10 posted on 11/19/2013 4:31:52 PM PST by lostboy61 (Lock and Load and stand your ground!)
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To: Kimberly GG
Is the Gettysburg Address subject to interpretation?

Depends on which copy of the speech you're working from.

11 posted on 11/19/2013 4:35:13 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Kimberly GG

According to this Obama had choice of 5 possible versions
Three of them had “ under God” in them...Obama being so damn smart we cant stand it, of course picked a version without “under God” in it...That way Reverend Wright who taught him all he knows about Christianity could be happy


12 posted on 11/19/2013 4:35:33 PM PST by woofie
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To: Kimberly GG

Zer0's Gettysburg Redressed

Four score and seven years ago our my fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal will be equal.

Now we I am are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that my nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We I 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 I should do this.

But, in a larger sense, I we can not dedicate, I we can not consecrate, I we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it for me, far above your poor power to add or detract. The media world will little always note, nor and long remember what we I say here, but it can never forget what they did here for me.

It is for us you the living down-trodden workers, 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 you to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us you —that from these honored dead we you take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we I 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.

13 posted on 11/19/2013 4:36:07 PM PST by mykroar (“We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.” - Nathanael Greene)
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Because the POS is above it all.


14 posted on 11/19/2013 4:36:52 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Kimberly GG

Yeah, not giving him a pass on revisionist history. He can go to hell.


15 posted on 11/19/2013 4:36:55 PM PST by Viennacon
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To: Kimberly GG

Should have nothing to do with this version or that from Lincoln’s scribblings before the speech. The key is, if the actual speech included “Under God”, and 0’ omits it in a modern rendering, then he (0’) is slime and on an agenda.

Period.


16 posted on 11/19/2013 4:37:17 PM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: Kimberly GG
Obama and the Dempcraps aren't real big on God. Why would they be? Believing in a HIGHER order would be incompatible with their own idea of "higher order," that is, MORE taxes to fund our already over-funded, under-worked American do-nothings.
Obama is the quintessential DO NOTHING MYSTIFIER.
17 posted on 11/19/2013 4:37:39 PM PST by cloudmountain
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To: DoodleDawg

Copy? I thought lincoln wrote it while traveling
to Gettysburg on the back of an envelope.


18 posted on 11/19/2013 4:37:45 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Kimberly GG
imbuing new meaning to the Gettysburg Address itself is a routine practice

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

19 posted on 11/19/2013 4:37:56 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (Play the 'Knockout Game' with someone owning a 9mm and you get what you deserve)
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To: Second Amendment First
He wanted to say “under Allah” but thought better of it.

Yes. Obama wanted to say Allah and the original said God so he compromised and just left it out. Ain't compromise nice?

20 posted on 11/19/2013 4:38:00 PM PST by plain talk
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