[HandyDandy]

"Apologize for what? By honoring the tyrant Lincoln, you dishonor the hundreds of thousands of American War Veterans who were casualties for both the South and the North. It was Lincoln’s war, not America’s War."

Every Memorial Day, for as long as I have been aware, the following is spoken by a local high school student, who has memorized it, at the local cemetery commemoration. Let me know what words of Obama you would like to replace them with:

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."

Abraham Lincoln,


November 19, 1863

[Right-wing Librarian]

DoodleDawg, you wrote, "Every Memorial Day, for as long as I have been aware, the following is spoken by a local high school student, who has memorized it, at the local cemetery commemoration. Let me know what words of Obama you would like to replace them with (quoted the Gettysburg Address)."

No doubt Lincoln was a great orator and politician. Too bad he he had such a cruel heart and used his skills to trick people out of their rights and property, rather than to promote freedom. It appears from your groveling, he is at it even today.

Not to rain on your parade (please spare us any mention of the "Emancipation" Proclamation), are you familiar with Lincoln's executive order-style asset forfeiture laws? I have read that any Northern opposition to Lincoln's dictatorship would result in forfeiture of all property. And get this! Those who turned in their neighbors would get half of the seized assets. If you had rich neighbors, you could get rich quick! (I wonder Lincoln is related to the Clinton's?)