Posted on 11/19/2013 8:35:10 PM PST by Positive
This is a remarkable display, even though it is a promo for Mr. Burns special.
I however choose to point out one little distinction.
If you visit the site you will be able to watch 63 plus people deliver the address. All of them delivered it as delivered by President Lincoln but for one.
Those who did are named below, after them is the one who left out two words...under God
Randi Weingarten - American Federation of Teachers
Debbi Wasserman Schultz - Chair of the DNC
Richard Trumpka - President AFL-CIO
Nina Totenberg - Journalist
Uma Thurman - Actress
U.S. Olympic Team (Mens's Soccer)
Tom Steyer - Environmentalist
Martha Stewart - Lifestyle Mogul
Jerry Seinfeld - Comedian
Chuck Schumer - Senator
Bob Schieffer - Journalist
David Saperstein - Rabbi
Marco Rubio - Senator
Peter Rubenstein - Rabbi
Jay Rockefeller - Senator
Robin Roberts - TV Host
Mike Rawlings - Mayor of Dallas
Nancy Polosi - House Minority Leader
Annise D. Parker - Mayor of Houston
Bill O'Reilly - TV Host
Conan O'Brien - TV Host
Bill Nelson - Senator
Richard E. Neal - Congressman
Rita Moreno - Actress
Alyssa Milano - Actress
Gregory Meeks - Congressman
Rachel Maddow - MSNBC
Ray Mabus - Secretary of the Navy
Vicki Lawrence - Actress
Angus King - Senator
Jimmy Kimmel - TV Host
Tim Kaine - Senator
Sally Jewell - Secretary of the Interior
Jon Jarvis - Director National Park Service
Gwen Ifill - Journalist
Arianna Huffington - Entrepreneur
Harold Holzer - Abe Lincoln Scholar
David Gregory - Journalist
Whoopi Goldberg - Comedian
Jim Gilmore - Fmr Governor of Virginia
Gabby Giffords & Friends - Former Congressman
Bill Gates - Microsoft
Eric Garcetti - Mayor of Los Angeles
Eric Foner - Historian
Arne Duncan - Secretary of Education
Timothy Dolan - Cardinal
David Dinkins - Fmr Mayor of New York City
Mario Cuomo - Fmr Governor of New York
Charlie Crist - Fmr Governor of Florida
Stephen Colbert - Comedian
Bill Clinton - 42nd President of the United States
Bob Casey - Senator
Jimmy Carter - 39th President of the United States
Tom Carper - Senator
George W. Bush - 43 President of the United States
Louis C. K. - Comedian
Wolf Blitzer - Journalist
James Billington - Librarian of Congress
Mike Beebe - Governor of Arkansas
Mathew Barzan - Ambassador
Ken Burns - Filmmaker
All of the above concluded their recitation as follows: "...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 and for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Barrack Hussein Obama - 44th President of the United States - is the only one who omitted under God.
Guess Totus was out sick that day.
Check it out for yourself: http://www.learntheaddress.org/#Nm-vfxZyJwo
Obama is quite simply the most reprehensible, despicable pile of horse excrement I have ever seen in my life. Hard to believe that anyone could eclipse Slick Willie in terms of overall loathesomeness, but Zero has him beaten by a country mile, and then some.
Most noticeable on that list is almost entirely Democrat with a few RINOs and no Conservatives.
I’m surprised Obama didn’t say “The Prophet Muhammud, Peace be upon him”
Lincoln was the first Republican president. You would think there might be a few more people from the GOP on that list.It makes me sick knowing that one of the greatest leaders in world history is having his words recited by a bunch of people who represent a political party that to this day often badmouths the very country that great man, Abraham Lincoln, gave his full measure of devotion and his life to preserve.
ditto that
His perversity never ceases to amaze me. He’s always out of step. Well, not always. The address that got him national attention was red, white and blue, and that threw us all off.
What a crew of lefties with so few exceptions as to be embarrassing. I have no interest in watching these people read or do anything from the destructive Randi Weingarten to the moronic Wasserman-Schultz to the offensive Louis CK.
A significant number of the speakers are leftists, marxists, or just plain anti-American. Here’s my list
Rachel Maddox - wacked out leftist
Richard Trumka - marxist labor leader
Rabbi David Saperstein - smuck par excellence. never met a liberal ass his didn’t kiss or a leftist group he didn’t support. Believe, Sap and I go back a long way re his history.
Sen. Schumer - the most anti-Constitution members of the Senate and one of the dumbest.
Nina Totenberg - the faux journalist from NPR. Even other leftists avoid her
Debbie Wasserman-Schulz - the main candidate for dumbest US Senator around. Competition from Nancy Pelosi, whose sanity is really in question. She loves money, not America.
Eric Foner - marxist historian
Arne Duncan - Secy of Education, whose goal it is to dumb down American kids further than they are now
Sen. Jay Rockefeller - bought himself a state and acted like King except that the late Sen. Robert Byrd was the “KING” and kept old Rocky on another type of throne till he died
Ex Mayor Dinkins - might be a nice guy but he sure screwed up the Big Apple while he was in charge
Where was Dr. Ben Carson, Hermain Cain, Col. Alan West (who earned the right to speak there unlike most of the other backbenchers), Dakota Myers (MOH), any astronaut (was Gifford’s husband there as a speaker?), any First Responders from 9/11, Guiliani, etc?
More like a Hollywood lovefest than a true honoring of the sacrifices of the Civil War.
PS: My father-in-law’s family from two small towns in Pennsylvania, DuBois and Sykesville, which they founded in the 1600/1700’s, had at least 17 Union soldiers in one Penn. Volunteer Company at Gettysburg. My father-in-law, a veteran of the Pacific campaigns, including Iwo Jima, wasn’t invited to speak. He could have represented his ancestors who risked their lives to stop the Confederates and to end slavery.
I think you get my point!
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I’m sure it couldn’t have been his fault. The script writer was surely one of those right-wing extremist teabaggers.
:-)
Ken Burns, an award winning documentarian recorded all the current livng presidents reciting the Gettysburg Address which includes "-- 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 -- ". Barack Hussein Obama chose not to utter "under God".
The man has proven himself to be an inveterate liar, an enemy of the Constitution, an enemy of anyone who supports and truly defends the Constitution, a lawless narcissist, a friend of radical Islam, a false ally to Isreal, and what really burns me up, the most hostile public official to biblical Christianity. He is a snake and not to be trusted and I'm completely fed up him and his Progressive filth.
That, since you (FB) asked, is what's on my mind.
While I am no fan of zero’s, I did check the website and learned that what he read was the “Nicolay copy” or first draft, while what we are all more familiar with is the “Hay copy” written after Lincoln’s return to Washington and “matches most contemporaneous accounts.” There are other differences. See http://www.gettysburgfoundation.org/41
There is plenty this puppet is guilty of, but I’ll give him a pass here. Perhaps he chose to read the Nicolay copy because of its lack of “under God.” The website suggests he was asked to read that version, I’ll take them at their word.
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