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To: jeffersondem

That is without a doubt the most idiotic analysis of the Gettysburg Address I’ve ever seen. Congratulations.


405 posted on 06/23/2017 3:46:26 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg
“That is without a doubt the most idiotic analysis of the Gettysburg Address I’ve ever seen.”

Others have said the same thing. Only better.

Read what Pulitzer Prize winner and historian Garry Wills wrote:

Lincoln at Gettysburg “performed one of the most daring acts of open-air sleight-of-hand ever witnessed by the unsuspecting. Everyone in that vast throng of thousands was having his or her intellectual pocket picked. The crowd departed with a new thing in its ideological luggage, that new constitution Lincoln had substituted for the one they brought there with them. They walked off, from those curving graves on the hillside, under a changed sky, into a different America. Lincoln had revolutionized the Revolution, giving people a new past to live with that would change their future indefinitely.”

Remember, Wills was an admirer of Lincoln.

407 posted on 06/23/2017 7:09:34 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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