“The Obamasburg Address”
Hey, is it Lincoln’s birthday or Obama’s? Hard to tell anymore.
If you’re overdosing on all the fawning, endless Obama/Lincoln comparisons today, Bruce at MassBackwards has penned a little comic relief.
Introducing…the Obamasburg Address:
The Obamasburg Address
Washington DC
February 12, 2009Three weeks and two days ago our community organizers and voter fraud operatives brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Socialism, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created to be subservient to their government.
Now we are engaged in a great class 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 up their individual liberty 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 gullible voters, living and dead, who were bamboozled here, have consecrated it, far above the diminished power of the people to detract. The media will little note, nor long remember what we are actually doing here, nor will it ever admit what they did here. It is for us the powerful centralized government, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so fraudulently advanced. It is rather for us, the ones we have been waiting for, to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these uneducated, unskilled masses we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these useful idiots shall not have voted, however many times, in vain — that this nation, under Me, shall have a new birth of HopenchangeTM — and that government of the lobbyists, by the politically-connected, for the career politicians, shall not perish from the earth.”
Thank you, Bruce, we needed that!
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Gag:
President Obama has urged supporters to help the United States remain “the last, best hope of Earth.” He has ordered staff members to “think anew and act anew.” And he has assailed the “worn-out dogmas” of political ideology.
Each time, his words were reminiscent of those of Abraham Lincoln.
Obama, like so many of his predecessors, wants to link himself to one of history’s greatest presidents.
“He sees Lincoln as a model,” said Fred Kaplan, author of “Lincoln: The Biography Of A Writer.” “Obama echoes Lincoln.”
Also, as the nation’s first black president, Obama can “suggest he’s helping to complete the unfinished work of American democracy that Lincoln spoke about at Gettysburg,” said Harold Holzer, a historian and co-chair of the United States Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.
Wednesday evening, Obama honored Lincoln at a gala at Ford’s Theatre, the recently renovated hall where Lincoln was assassinated in 1865. Thursday the president will discuss Lincoln again as he travels to Springfield, Ill., for the 200th anniversary of Lincoln’s birth…
…Obama borrows Lincoln’s phrases and pacing. In June, when he clinched the Democratic nomination, Obama urged backers to see this as “the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope of Earth.”
The phrase comes not from a Lincoln speech, but from his written 1862 message to Congress, in which he urged members to continue backing the war to save the Union: “We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.”
Obama outlined his admiration for Lincoln in a 2005 essay for Time magazine. He cited Lincoln’s “humble beginnings,” as well as his “rise from poverty, his ultimate mastery of language and law, his capacity to overcome personal loss and remain determined in the face of repeated defeat.”
Obama’s Lincoln-mania has drawn critics over the years.
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The consequences are high. I am probably more conservative than your pinkie.
I know that the wacko-left wished Bush dead, and they have every right to wish that. I disagreed with them, but they can wish. They killed Bushes character and you might as well put a bullet in a man than kill his character.
I’m through with you trolls telling me I can’t “feel” the way I want to. Next you will be telling me I shouldn’t have a corporate jet to fly around in.
I want him defeated in all ways. He is dangerous to the whole world.
THEY AREN’T LISTENING. IT 99 TO 1 TO VOTE NO ON THE PORKULUS AND YET THEY VOTE YES.
WE MUST GET OFF OUR ASSES AWAY FROM THE BLOGS AND GRAB OUR GUNS AND MARCH ON DC. TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK. THE CONSTITUTION TELLS US THAT WHEN THE GOVERNMENT BECOMES THE PROBLEM ITS THE DUTY OF THE PEOPLE TO GET RID OF IT.
I’M READY, WAY READY TO STAND SHOULDER TO SHOULDER TO ANYONE WHO “FEELS” THE SAME TO SAVE OUR REPUBLIC!
Anyone else notice CNN’s fit over his use of the name “Macbeth” in his speech.
Hey, Mercy4Me. Get help. Now. Seriously.
You have written not-so-eloquently about your wish for the violent death of the President and how we need to “GRAB OUR GUNS AND MARCH ON DC.” This country is great because we don’t have to do that. All we have to do is vote them out. We voted them in, so we have to deal with it for 2, 4, or 6 years, depending upon whom we are addressing.
Also, it’s the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution, that says, “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, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.” The Declaration of Independence was just that. A declaration from one group of people to another. I believe it, I love it, but one must acknowledge that it is not a document that creates or establishes any type of law. It’s not a legal document of any kind, actually.
That said, you’re ignoring the first step in the very phrase you quoted. The first choice offered is to alter the government. I think you’ll agree that for a couple of centuries we had a pretty good thing going. There is no need to abolish this government and start over. You’d be throwing the baby out with the bath water! We can work for REAL change to begin in 2010 by electing a new Congress.
Our job as faithful citizens is to vehemently oppose the ideas of elected leaders which contradict those ideals expressed in the Declaration of Independence upon which this country was founded. We must point out to anyone who will listen when they ignore the Constitution to advance their political agenda. We live in an age where we can still revolt with our votes and with our political activism. Our weapons are not necessary. The real power still lies with We the People.
I’m starting to think you’re a liberal troll who’s trying to stir up trouble and get others to say stupid things. That doesn’t work on this side of the aisle. We love our country.
On February 13th, 2009 at 11:28 am, Kevin from Ohio in Virginia said:
Hey, Mercy4Me. Get help. Now. Seriously.
You have written not-so-eloquently about your wish for the violent death of the President and how we need to “GRAB OUR GUNS AND MARCH ON DC.” This country is great because we don’t have to do that. All we have to do is vote them out. We voted them in, so we have to deal with it for 2, 4, or 6 years, depending upon whom we are addressing.
Also, it’s the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution, that says, “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, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.” The Declaration of Independence was just that. A declaration from one group of people to another. I believe it, I love it, but one must acknowledge that it is not a document that creates or establishes any type of law. It’s not a legal document of any kind, actually.
That said, you’re ignoring the first step in the very phrase you quoted. The first choice offered is to alter the government. I think you’ll agree that for a couple of centuries we had a pretty good thing going. There is no need to abolish this government and start over. You’d be throwing the baby out with the bath water! We can work for REAL change to begin in 2010 by electing a new Congress.
Our job as faithful citizens is to vehemently oppose the ideas of elected leaders which contradict those ideals expressed in the Declaration of Independence upon which this country was founded. We must point out to anyone who will listen when they ignore the Constitution to advance their political agenda. We live in an age where we can still revolt with our votes and with our political activism. Our weapons are not necessary. The real power still lies with We the People.
I’m starting to think you’re a liberal troll who’s trying to stir up trouble and get others to say stupid things. That doesn’t work on this side of the aisle. We love our country.
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Hear, hear!