Obama Speech Line Lifted from a Letter from Lincoln

Various ^ | Nov. 21, 1864 | Abraham Lincoln

[JohnBrowdie]

the obamites are always lifting lines from Lincoln. they are quite obsessed with him. tell me that he didn't crib this line:

Obama last night : "There is nothing I can say that will fill the hole in your hearts, but I know this: the hopes of nation are here with you."

Lincoln's letter to Mrs. Lydia Bixby : I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.

Full Text of Lincoln's Letter

[kabar]

Bit of a stretch.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

You still suck, quisling Obama!

[McGavin999]

Uh, no.

[DJ MacWoW]

I’m thinking “no”.

[Christian Engineer Mass]

Lincoln was renowned for his gift of rhetoric.

And that was a positive thing, not a slur.

[JohnG45]

"There is nothing I can say that will fill the hole in your hearts."

Oh, yes there is.

Today, I resign the Presidency of the United States.

[RavenATB]

I don’t know how you could re-write Lincoln’s statement into today’s “lingo” and not make it fit, hand-in-glove, with Obama’s line you quoted.

It kind of goes along with my assertion that no liberal has had an original thought in the past two centuries...

[JRios1968]

I think it’s a stretch...

[F15Eagle]

You’re going to need stronger evidence (in the thread) than that.

Like these - they nail it and with dates:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M6x1H08aFc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgctsioisJg&feature=related

[Joe 6-pack]

Maybe Obama can borrow one of these, too...

[turdhopper]

that clown and his crew are commies

[F15Eagle]

Obama rips from John Edwards (part 3 of above)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqutz5ASDSA&NR=1

[max americana]

>”There is nothing I can say that will fill the hole in your hearts, but I know this: the hopes of nation are here with you.” <

Odumbo actually said this line. He doesnt give a rip about anyone except himself. It was just another photo op for him, and probably got PO’d that he missed another golf game.

[dforest]

Heh, Obama never refers to this country as a Republic. I notice Lincoln did.

[Bob]

That’s hardly what I’d term ‘lifting’ the line. Beyond the overall sentiment expressed, I don’t see any similarity at all between the two.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

I thought it shameful all those people applauding at a memorial service.

[xenob]

Uh, no.

[DannyTN]

That argument is WEAK!!!

[JohnBrowdie]

uncle! uncle! lol. I will take everyone’s word for it that I am imagining things. I have imagined similar things in Obama Speeches in the past, but I think I will wait for my head to grow back before I post them. heh.

Still, it wasn’t an original idea.

[Freddd]

Seemed to me like he almost parroted Sarah’s speech...

[Rebelbase]

“Bit of a stretch.”

Grasping at straws too.

[AppyPappy]

Oh no. Obama stole a line that Lincoln didn’t say.

[N. Theknow]

Lincoln used a teleprompter?

[drubyfive]

It’s encouraging to see a thread where FReepers are standing up against a frivolous argument. The answer to incivility is other people calling it out. Kudos.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

“Lincoln used a teleprompter?”...

Obama thought he did.......

[gunnyg]

the resemblance is striking...

[Tex-Con-Man]

Usher ripped off Homer, but Obama didn't rip off Lincoln.

[Nachum]

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[ReverendJames]

Watched his pitiful speech, dunno why. I’m still trying to figure out what he said. It was fifteen minutes of mumble-jumbo. Not a coherent thought in the whole message.

[fish hawk]

Ward Churchill wrote his speech. LOL

[reagan_fanatic]

Sorry, I don’t see it. You’re really stretching it there.

[sniper63]

“Lincoln used a teleprompter?”...on TV no less

Just ask "Plugs"

[Gondring]

Quite a stretch.