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Obama won't attend remembrance for 150th anniversary of Gettysburg Address
Lubbockonline ^

Posted on 10/31/2013 7:51:26 PM PDT by chessplayer

GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — President Barack Obama will not attend next month’s event marking the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address in Pennsylvania, national park officials said.

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will instead represent the administration the Nov. 19 sesquicentennial, officials at Gettysburg National Military Park said Wednesday.

McPherson, a top Civil War historian who won the Pulitzer for “Battle Cry of Freedom,” said he was surprised by Obama’s decision.

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To: chessplayer

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government


41 posted on 10/31/2013 9:21:55 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: sunny48

Well at least the ground will remain pure and unsoiled.


42 posted on 10/31/2013 10:13:07 PM PDT by chiefqc
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To: chessplayer

Must conflict with tee time.


43 posted on 10/31/2013 10:23:10 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
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To: steve8714

I wish he wood offer a calendar of himself I would buy and torch it.


44 posted on 10/31/2013 11:02:18 PM PDT by funfan
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To: funfan

“would” bad spelling night.


45 posted on 10/31/2013 11:03:18 PM PDT by funfan
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To: Bobalu

Brings back memories of having to recite from memory in my 8th grade history class. Wonder if kids today have to memorize it.


46 posted on 10/31/2013 11:34:08 PM PDT by Conservative4Ever (A pox on the House of Apple and the ios7 horse they rode in on.)
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To: o-n-money

My son, his dad, and his (my son) grandfather made a trip just last month to see Gettysburg. Said it was just awesome. Great trip for 3 generations of guys in the family to make together.


47 posted on 10/31/2013 11:39:37 PM PDT by Conservative4Ever (A pox on the House of Apple and the ios7 horse they rode in on.)
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To: chessplayer; Fledermaus; Yudan

We lost and now Yankees are invading en masse yet again in middle TN

I’m not going either....

I think I’ll retrace Forrest’s rout of Sturgis just for fun

Lol


48 posted on 10/31/2013 11:48:12 PM PDT by wardaddy (i loved White Queen)
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To: chessplayer

Obama and Obamunism are only interested in enslaving people, not freeing them (Obamacare,anti-Islam blasphemy prosecutions, anti-Christian indoctrination in the military, betraying allies to the Moslem Brotherhood in Egypt and Tunisia, trying to betray the freedom holders of Honduras to a psycho red Zelaya, etc).


49 posted on 11/01/2013 1:09:21 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: steve8714

To #36> re “im shocked he hadn’t ordered a new calendar” with him in it.

JUST YOU WAIT!


50 posted on 11/01/2013 1:11:51 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: ransomnote

Class war is a two way street and the domestic communist apparatchik and parasites who vote for them are in for a rude awakening.

Vacation Guy probably has a lot on his calendar that day, homo sex with Reggie Love, golf, and a CPUSA conference call.


51 posted on 11/01/2013 1:45:44 AM PDT by Rome2000 (THE WASHINGTONIANS AND UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE ARE THE ENEMY -ROTATE THE CAPITAL AMONGST THE STATES)
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To: onyx

Good news! He won’t be defiling hallowed ground.


52 posted on 11/01/2013 3:18:32 AM PDT by RedMDer (http://www.dontfundobamacare.com/)
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To: chessplayer

53 posted on 11/01/2013 3:27:08 AM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: chessplayer

They can’t control the attendees and are afraid he would be heartily booooed.


54 posted on 11/01/2013 3:35:17 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) ( Hey Rubio, eat pooh pal))
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To: SampleMan

Probably because God is named in the address.

There was a great article in PennLive..

http://blog.pennlive.com/gettysburg-150/2013/10/obama_chickens_out_skips_getty.html


55 posted on 11/01/2013 4:39:58 AM PDT by SueRae (It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
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To: wardaddy

Naw, it was a Looooooooooong term win!


56 posted on 11/01/2013 12:49:32 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Primary and beat the RINO's.)
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