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.
Wingers at work had Fake News on as usual yesterday. I hear Martha McCallum indignant about Obama not attending. She then talks about how JFK missed the 100th because he was going to Dallas. To use that kind of analogy is sick. Fox is out of control. Ever since Murdoch started his Fake News channel it gets worse every year.
Those like McCallum are so tedious. If Obama had attended, she’d be crabbing 1) who does he think he is to break a 150 year tradition that sitting Presidents don’t appear at Gettysburg on the anniversary of Lincoln’s address and 2) there he goes again honoring memorials to black people.
It’s precisely people like this that have precluded sitting Presidents from attending the anniversary of Lincoln’s speech — which personally I think every freaking one of them should have honored. Democratic Presidents through Clinton were dependent on votes from the racist south — best not to rub any salt in that wound.
I’m not indignant or anything, but it would have been cool if he’d gone since he got a lot of Lincoln comparisons.
Yeah, but then it would be “He thinks he is Lincoln how pompous people are losing their healthcare blah, blah.” Better to be in Washington right now its better politically.
Weird isn’t it that those that would have appreciated seeing him go there aren’t in the least upset that he didn’t?
But it did slightly disgust me to see him awarding Clinton a Medal of Freedom. Save them for people that have done remarkable things without getting public acclaim and money.
Clinton is more defensible than Oprah but I see your point.
Oprah is more understandable given that she helped him get elected. But as a highly visible and immensely wealthy woman, no reason she should have even been a candidate.