They really can’t top “keep government out of my Medicare” for sheer ignorance. So today they settled for ignorant and sheer hypocrisy while demonstrating that they’d eat Polonium-210 if a bagger leader told them it would hurt Obama.
Obama Snubs 150th Anniversary of Gettysburg Address.
Just 65 miles from the White House, thousands will gather Tuesday at the battlefield where 150 years ago the sacrifice and bloodshed and deaths of warring Americans were immortalized by the words of President Abraham Lincoln. Fifty-one thousand casualties were counted when the fighting ceased in 1863, including 8,000 deaths, a toll that Lincoln, in his Gettysburg Address, pledged the nation “can never forget.”
But among the thousands in attendance will not be President Obama. …
Okey-dokey. It would be fitting to recall the Abraham Lincoln’s words at Gettysburg on the 150th anniversary of his address. To recall the battle that was the beginning of the end to the Civil War and that legal slavery would be no more in this nation. From the Nicolay Copy
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It is rather for us, the living, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that, from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the last full measure of devotion – that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation, 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.
Fitting for anyone to remember except those white southerners and racists throughout this country that have yet to accept that message. And while they hate liberals and Democrats in general, their hatred for Obama is more visceral. Their faces contorted with their emotion in ways not seen on white folks since the days of the school integration and Civil Rights movement.
Yet somehow they’ve got their panties in a bunch because the man they revile didn’t attend an anniversary (an important anniversary) of an iconic address that they also revile.
The ignorant part (beyond knowing the history and words of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address) is that no sitting President has ever attended an anniversary of this Address.
Oh, sure, Ike was there on the hundredth anniversary in 1962, but he wasn’t President then and as lived in Gettysburg, it wasn’t as if he had to travel to get there.
Woodrow Wilson was there on July 4th, 1913. Not to commemorate the speech but the battle.
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Six sitting Presidents spoke there on Memorial Day: Rutherford B. Hayes, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft[1909], Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Another five Presidents appeared at Gettysburg around the battle anniversary: Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Jimmy Carter.
So, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush, and George W Bush were all too busy to appear at Gettysburg for Memorial Day, the 4th of July, the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address or on any other one of the 365 days in a year. OKIYAR indeed.