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Posted on: Nov. 04 2013,12:55 pm |
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This November 19th marks the 150th Anneversary of Presiden Lincoln's famous address to the Nation. We all know it or parts of it. We learned about it in grade school.
QUOTE 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.
Sixteen presidents have visited that hallowed battlefield since Lincoln addressed the few people in attendance in 1863. 50,000 men were killed or wounded on this battlefield. President George W. Bush being the last to honor the field.
He will still be the last as our less than patriotic president has chosen not to attend this 150th Anniversary celebration. We don't know what important engagement he has scheduled for that day. He will sent his british born Secretary of the Interior instead. Hardly fitting. The WH press secretary will not comment.
The great Bambino likes to compare himself to Lincoln. He announced from the Illinois Statehouse as LIncoln did and took his oath of office with the Lincoln bible. 
The Gettysburg Times article is simple QUOTE Gettysburg, honored dead deserve presidential visit
So, he's not coming.
The news that President Obama has decided not to accept the invitation to speak on November 19thfor the150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address has generated a surprising volume of irritation. One regional editorial writer called it "a profile in cowardice"; another local editor called the news that Interior Secretary Sally Jewell (a British-born oil and banking executive) would come in the president's place "unacceptable." After all, many people were convinced that no sitting president would want to miss the opportunity to step into the sesquicentennial shoes of Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg. Especially a president who had identified himself so closely with Lincoln during his first run for the presidency in 2008.
Kennedy was invited to speak at the 100th anniversary in 1963. He opted to travel to Dallas instead.
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Posted on: Nov. 04 2013,5:37 pm |
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Conceived in liberty, Abe's spinning in his grave. 
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Posted on: Nov. 04 2013,5:50 pm |
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How many presidents have attended one of these anniversaries?
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Posted on: Nov. 04 2013,8:48 pm |
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I never attempted to look any of that up. But then how much hoopla would there be for, say, the 148th anniversary in comparison to the 50th, 100th, 125th and so on?
Twenty-four presidents have visited Gettysburg since the summer of 1863. Hmm, four didn't? By the different numbers, I'd guess maybe sixteen attended ceremonies. Kennedy did visit, but it was in the spring of '63.
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Posted on: Nov. 04 2013,9:17 pm |
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According to documents supplied by the Adams County Historical Society, 16 presidents have visited Gettysburg while they were in office -- Lincoln on Nov. 19, 1863; Rutherford B. Hayes on May 30, 1878; Grover Cleveland May 4, 1885; Theodore Roosevelt on May 30, 1904; William H. Taft on Nov. 19, 1909; Woodrow Wilson on July 3, 1913; Warren G. Harding on July 1, 1922; Calvin Coolidge on May 30, 1928; Herbert Hoover on May 30, 1930; Franklin D. Roosevelt on May 30, 1934, and July 3, 1938; Harry S. Truman on July 6, 1946; Dwight D. Eisenhower on Nov. 13, 1955; John F. Kennedy on March 31, 1963; Richard M. Nixon on April 3, 1972; Jimmy Carter on July 6 and Sept. 11, 1978, and George W. Bush on Sept. 6, 2008.
One president visited Gettysburg on the anniversary (Taft in 1909). Does that offend you, or are you only offended when an uppity black president doesn't attend the anniversary?
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Posted on: Nov. 05 2013,3:50 am |
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Uppity is a good word, rather fitting.
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Posted on: Nov. 05 2013,5:53 am |
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Nah, he's trying to draw in some point of being racist. There are other definitions relating to uppity such as (affecting an attitude of inflated self-esteem; haughty; snobbish) than a form of racism though.
Perhaps it would be just a simple fact that he became president after being a statesman in Illinios (Springfield) like Lincoln. Came to Washington following the same route Abe took and even used his bible for his oath of office. Obama Perhaps it partly because he tries to identify with Lincoln. Maybe its partly because he's our first black president and a celebration of a battle fought in part to abolish slavery.
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Posted on: Nov. 05 2013,7:07 am |
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Slavery over, get on with life.
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