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Obama Won't Attend Gettysburg Address Remembrance
« on: October 31, 2013, 05:04:19 pm »
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/obama-attend-gettysburg-address-remembrance-20739966

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President Barack Obama will not attend next month's event marking the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in Pennsylvania.

Officials at Gettysburg National Military Park said Wednesday that U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will represent the administration the Nov. 19 sesquicentennial.

Jewell and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James McPherson will share the role of keynote speaker. Other events include a reading of the Gettysburg address by a Lincoln portrayer. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett also plans to attend the ceremony.

Lincoln delivered the immortal words of the address at a dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery on Nov. 19, 1863, more than four months after the Civil War's pivotal battle. More than 3,500 Union soldiers killed in the Battle of Gettysburg are buried there.

I wonder why he won't. Could you all here at the forum enlighten me on your reasons why he won't please?


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« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2013, 06:22:51 pm »
Obama is in  bunker mode and obviously afraid he will be booed. From here on in he will pick his venues very carefully.



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Re: Obama Won't Attend Gettysburg Address Remembrance
« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2013, 06:49:55 pm »
Because it's not his country anyway?
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Re: Obama Won't Attend Gettysburg Address Remembrance
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2013, 07:32:26 pm »
Both great reasons. I was thinking a bit of both anyone else have any ideas why. I just found it strange him turning down a reason to talk in public.

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« Reply #4 on: October 31, 2013, 07:38:46 pm »
Abraham Lincoln delivered the quintessentially succinct and profound speech at that site.  Obama, the great orator, knows he can not measure up.
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Re: Obama Won't Attend Gettysburg Address Remembrance
« Reply #5 on: October 31, 2013, 07:39:48 pm »
Both great reasons. I was thinking a bit of both anyone else have any ideas why. I just found it strange him turning down a reason to talk in public.

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Maybe he doesn't like remembering how many white men died to put an end slavery in America?

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Re: Obama Won't Attend Gettysburg Address Remembrance
« Reply #6 on: October 31, 2013, 07:40:19 pm »
Lincoln freed the slaves.
Obama is enslaving the free.
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« Reply #7 on: October 31, 2013, 07:42:41 pm »
Obama is in  bunker mode and obviously afraid he will be booed. From here on in he will pick his venues very carefully.

I think you may be on to something here.

He's a egotist and a child, and won't go where people aren't going to bolster his already enormous ego.

And he knows that patriots will be at Gettysburg.

He HATES patriots.
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Re: Obama Won't Attend Gettysburg Address Remembrance
« Reply #8 on: October 31, 2013, 07:43:07 pm »
Lincoln freed the slaves.
Obama is enslaving the free.

May I quote you on that??   :patriot:
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Re: Obama Won't Attend Gettysburg Address Remembrance
« Reply #9 on: October 31, 2013, 07:45:35 pm »
Abraham Lincoln delivered the quintessentially succinct and profound speech at that site.  Obama, the great orator, knows he can not measure up.

The fact is, no one can.

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 battlefield 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.


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« Reply #10 on: October 31, 2013, 07:55:07 pm »
The fact is, no one can.

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 battlefield 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.


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It's absolutely brilliant.

I still have it committed to memory, and I weep that the resolve at the end of the speech is being destroyed at warp speed by the PUNK who dared compare himself to the GIANT of a man named Abraham Lincoln.
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« Reply #11 on: October 31, 2013, 08:00:17 pm »
The fact is, no one can.

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 battlefield 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.


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Obama could never deliver a speech such as this: first for its brevity, and secondly for its felicitous absence of self-referential pronouns.
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Re: Obama Won't Attend Gettysburg Address Remembrance
« Reply #12 on: October 31, 2013, 08:00:25 pm »
May I quote you on that??   :patriot:
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« Reply #13 on: October 31, 2013, 08:15:26 pm »
Look on the bright side here, folks.

Obama's presence at such a hallowed place in American history would simply besmirch everything it stands for.

As President he should have enough class to attend but as a person having so little character it is best he stay away.
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« Reply #14 on: October 31, 2013, 09:15:38 pm »
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/obama-attend-gettysburg-address-remembrance-20739966

I wonder why he won't. Could you all here at the forum enlighten me on your reasons why he won't please?

"All men are created equal"; goes against the Civil Rights movement of today.

"Conceived in Liberty"; liberty is what he is working against.

"New birth of freedom"; see the above.

"This nation under God"; not comment necessary.

"Government of the people, by the people, and for the people"; he obviously finds this repulsive.

The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here; he hates the military and any reference to it.

Lincoln was a cracker. :peeonobama:

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« Reply #15 on: October 31, 2013, 10:45:44 pm »
Lincoln freed the slaves.
Obama is enslaving the free. 

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« Reply #16 on: November 01, 2013, 12:32:10 am »
I'm kinda surprised since he claims to be the next Lincoln.
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« Reply #17 on: November 01, 2013, 12:32:57 am »
I'm kinda surprised since he claims to be the next Lincoln.

Probably didn't have a way to hide the teleprompter.
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« Reply #18 on: November 01, 2013, 12:33:52 am »
Probably didn't have a way to hide the teleprompter.

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Re: Obama Won't Attend Gettysburg Address Remembrance
« Reply #19 on: November 01, 2013, 12:43:07 am »
Obama is in  bunker mode and obviously afraid he will be booed. From here on in he will pick his venues very carefully.

Same reason he didn't go to Fenway Park last night, even though he was in Boston.  I'm sure Jarrett had the area polled, and that booing would overwhelm any cheering on TV.  He'll stick to college, black, and union crowds until after the mid-terms.
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Re: Obama Won't Attend Gettysburg Address Remembrance
« Reply #20 on: November 01, 2013, 12:44:59 am »
Look on the bright side here, folks.

Obama's presence at such a hallowed place in American history would simply besmirch everything it stands for.

As President he should have enough class to attend but as a person having so little character it is best he stay away.
My thoughts exactly. In fact I'd rather he NOT show up!
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« Reply #21 on: November 01, 2013, 01:03:20 am »
Same reason he didn't go to Fenway Park last night, even though he was in Boston.  I'm sure Jarrett had the area polled, and that booing would overwhelm any cheering on TV.  He'll stick to college, black, and union crowds until after the mid-terms.
Bingo. Even in blue Massachusetts he would have heard the boo birds.
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« Reply #22 on: November 01, 2013, 01:08:39 am »
Bingo. Even in blue Massachusetts he would have heard the boo birds.

If so he is a coward..
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Re: Obama Won't Attend Gettysburg Address Remembrance
« Reply #23 on: November 01, 2013, 05:13:37 pm »
Look on the bright side here, folks.

Obama's presence at such a hallowed place in American history would simply besmirch everything it stands for.

As President he should have enough class to attend but as a person having so little character it is best he stay away.
I am glad he isn't showing up. Whenever he goes to Arlington I want to puke. I am sure my father is rolling over in his grave when he does show up there.


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Re: Obama Won't Attend Gettysburg Address Remembrance
« Reply #24 on: November 01, 2013, 07:23:50 pm »
Abraham Lincoln delivered the quintessentially succinct and profound speech at that site.  Obama, the great orator, knows he can not measure up.

But it is odd, seeing that he invoked Lincoln frequently...even having the gall to compare himself to him.

...ah, but he compared himself to Reagan too....and wouldn't expect he and Michelle to visit his grave site.
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