Obama to be a no-show at Gettysburg 150th anniversary ceremony

The Washington Times ^ | 10/31/2013 | Ben Wolfgang

[markomalley]

President Obama has declined an invitation to speak at next month’s ceremony marking the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address.

The event, slated for Nov. 19 at the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, instead will feature Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and renowned historian James McPherson as the keynote speakers, the Gettysburg National Military Park said in a press release.

“President Obama will not attend and the Secretary of Interior will represent the administration,” the park pointed out in the first paragraph of its press release.

It’s unclear why Mr. Obama, a noted admirer of President Lincoln, declined the invitation. Among other tributes to the 16th president, Mr. Obama used the Lincoln Bible at both of his inauguration ceremonies, in 2009 and 2013.

Skipping the event may not make many waves in Washington, but it’s already causing an uproar in Pennsylvania.

Writing for the Harrisburg, Pa., newspaper the Patriot News, journalist Donald Gilliland said the president’s decision “is nothing less than a profile in cowardice.”

[Paladin2]

Bammy’s not going to play Lincoln for the National Provocation Service?

[AU72]

That works for me.

[PGR88]

I thought Obots were big on comparisons between Odumbo and Lincoln?

What better opportunity?

[ryan71]

He's not in the business of freeing people. He's in the business of enslaving them.

[Huskrrrr]

Fore! (”score and 7 years ago”)

[KarlInOhio]

...that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, [cough] shall have a new birth of authority -- and that government of the government, by the government, for the government, shall not perish from the earth.

[Dr. Ursus]

One freed the slaves; the other made us slaves!

[laweeks]

Keep this anti-American POS away from hallowed grounds.

No need to listen to “I” and “me” speaches from this worthless illegal muslim loving illegal alien.

[luvbach1]

It’s unclear why Mr. Obama, a noted admirer of President Lincoln, declined the invitation.

President Bystander is likely going to a fund raiser.

[bigbob]

Ding! We have a winner!

[Tax-chick]

Keep him out of there and let people who care about Gettysburg get on with their activities. Zero’s attendance at anything is like inviting a carrier of bubonic plague.

His pathetic minion Sally Jewell should be boo’d out of town, too.

[tanknetter]

James McPherson will be good.

I’m hoping Doris Kearns Goodwin is permamently persona non grata with the NPS after her deplorable behavior at the battle commemoration last July.

[windsorknot]

No one will refer to him as Honest 0b.

[null and void]

It was a war to free people, not enslave them. Even obama recognizes it would be hypocritical of him to attend.

[Puppage]

Is it asking too much to hold the ceremony at the turn? That 10th hole is brute.

[Above My Pay Grade]

Don’t blame him. The Democrat Party has never quite gotten over losing that battle.

[maddog55]

Desecrating sacred ground is a crime.. not that doing anything illegal bothers that POS.

[Bender2]

Re: Obama to be a no-show at Gettysburg 150th anniversary ceremony

Gadzooks, this... is news?

The Obamanation has been a no-show... since he was sworn in--

[353FMG]

He would only desecrate the place.