Posted on 10/31/2013 8:18:32 AM PDT by 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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Upgraded for today’s world - Living In Obamaland:
Four years and seven months ago our enemies brought forth on this continent, a new ideology, conceived in Marxism, and dedicated to the proposition that all men should be forced into equality.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether this nation, or any nation so transformed and so eroded, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to a point where those who side with evil will once again be fighting those who are willing to give their lives that a free nation might live. It is unfortunate that is has come to this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not forget — we can not erase — we can not ignore — this war. For the brave men, living and dead, who came before us, have shown us, far above our poor power to add or detract, what it takes to restore freedom. The world will note, and long remember what we do here, and it should 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.
Probably doesn't know the address.
“The WH is in bunker mode and obviously afraid the kenyan will be booed.”
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That’s because the White House can’t hand pick the audience for this event.
“Mr. Obama used the Lincoln Bible at both of his inauguration ceremonies”
But used no Bible in his secret inauguration. But I’m surprised he doesn’t care about this event. It marks the battle that paved the way for his usurpation.
His party was on the losing side of that war.
Lincoln: Republican
Kennedy: Democrat
That’s all you need to know to understand Obongo’s decision.
He could easily attend both events should he choose to do so. They are several days apart.
Surprised? Not!
If President Bush was still President, he would be going to the 50th Anniversary of JFK’s assassination. There has only been 44 People as President out of billions of Americans so this trumps everything! Probably the hardest job to get percentage wise on the planet.
Hypocrisy has never bothered BO. In fact, he's raised it to a whole new level.
I think he and/or his handlers have just made the calculation that there is no political payoff worth the risk of backlash from the people who actually care about the country he has taken over via electoral coup d'etat.
bingo
should be repeated often
Will he be visiting Dallas on the Friday after the missed anniversary?
Bush cares one helluva lot more about this country than Obongo does.
Bush would attend because it’s the right thing to do.
Obongo would attend only because of the politics and optics of doing so.
Obongo has an airplane at his disposal. He could attend the ceremony in Pennsylvania on Nov. 19, and the ceremony in Dallas on the 22nd, leaving him plenty of time for some rounds of golf in between.
No conflict at all.
Will he be busy on the hustings, shaking down the ignorant libs in Follywood, again? Or the Wall St. bankers that he can fine into oblivion if they don’t cough up adequate campaign stash for next year’s election? He’s as busy as a carny in crooked booth at a county fair.
Only because Lincoln was a REPUBLICAN................
We don’t need this race baiter, commie near this Historical Land Mark. Let him hang out with the leftist marxists demonkrats.
If he were truly an intellectual and appreciative for being an important person in our nation’s history, he would eagerly attend and deliver a memorable American speech. A short 150 years produced a black president.
He can’t even spell “Lincoln.”
His roots are in Kenya not the South.
“...that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that the government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the Earth.”
Obongo must hate this line in particular.
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