Good news: Obama invited to deliver new Gettysburg Address
posted at 6:02 pm on March 17, 2010 by Allahpundit
Considering that the event won’t happen until 2013 and that his approval rating sank beneath the waves at Gallup just this morning, this is an awfully optimistic case of planning ahead.
Although in fairness, it could be amazing. A weary yet resolute president, gifted with oratorical powers, climbs the dais and looks out over a crowd congregated on some of our nation’s most hallowed ground. Willing himself to rise to the occasion and hoping, somehow, to channel the greatness of the man who preceded him at the scene, he steels himself, opens his mouth and declares:
“I don’t spend a lot of time worrying about what the rules are.”
One town is already banking on President Obama’s re-election: Gettysburg, Pa. Looking ahead to July 2013, organizers of the 150th anniversary of the decisive three-day clash between Union and Confederate forces have extended an invitation for Obama to deliver his own Gettysburg address, we hear. “That would be really cool,” says Gettysburg Convention and Visitors Bureau President Norris Flowers. “I expect that.”
When I posted the link to this on Twitter this morning, Jay Cost instantly replied, “What are the chances Obama will run longer than Lincoln’s 278 words?” To which I merrily retorted, “What are the chances that the speech will mostly be about him?” But I think it was Sarah Wells who said it best when she observed, “There’s something really important missing from Lincoln’s address and that’s Obama’s amazing life story.” So there’s that to look forward to, too.
Exit question: Is Gettysburg really the right setting for Hopenchange? I can think of a better one.
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He won’t be President when the time comes, so someone else will be giving the address.
President Palin anyone?
/ducks flying shoes
Enoxo on March 17, 2010 at 6:04 PM
I am sure he’s called Aaron Sorkin already to help out.
Mr. Joe on March 17, 2010 at 6:05 PM
Makes me wanna puke.
Rational Thought on March 17, 2010 at 6:06 PM
Ok, I chuckled. I wonder if that line will ever come back to haunt him? *snort*
AUINSC on March 17, 2010 at 6:06 PM
Keep f***ing that Lincoln.
LibTired on March 17, 2010 at 6:07 PM
What an insult to Lincoln, to America, and to those great Americans, on both sides, that fell that day.
elduende on March 17, 2010 at 6:07 PM
BTW, Gettysburg really does need to find itself another Convention and Visitors Bureau President. This guys is a laughing stock now.
AUINSC on March 17, 2010 at 6:08 PM
Greek columns and a bank of teleprompters….just doesn’t give the same impression as Lincoln did.
Bishop on March 17, 2010 at 6:08 PM
This is what happens when two consecutive generations of Americans have zero education.
Pathetic.
tetriskid on March 17, 2010 at 6:08 PM
An Obamateurism in the making. That POS isn’t qualified to lick the soles of Lincoln’s shoes.
BottomLine5 on March 17, 2010 at 6:09 PM
That pic looks like Alfred E. Lincoln.
Joe Mama on March 17, 2010 at 6:09 PM
That was funny!
JellyToast on March 17, 2010 at 6:09 PM
Come on… by then he and Lincoln could have a LOT in common… like… Civil Wars?
Romeo13 on March 17, 2010 at 6:10 PM
Two hundred and thirty-four years ago your fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil 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. I have come to dedicate a government expansion bill, as a final solution for those who work all their lives that that nation might pay its bills. It is altogether fitting and proper that they should do this. Let them know their place.
But, in a larger sense, I cannot dedicate…I cannot consecrate…I cannot hallow this bill. The brave children and health care advertising props, living and dead, who went all the way to Washington for my photo ops, have consecrated it, far above even my power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what your fathers said, but it can never forget what I have done. It is for us the ruling, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished bill which the health care props who spoke here have thus far so nobly promoted. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us–that from the jobless Democrats we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these Democrats shall not have lost their seats in vain—-that this nation, under me, shall always advance toward a healthier subjection-—and that government of the people, by the statists, for the Democrats, shall not perish from the earth for as long as China allows.
pseudonominus on March 17, 2010 at 6:10 PM
desecration
Joe Caps on March 17, 2010 at 6:10 PM
Breaking! I managed to locate an leaked rough draft.
.
Here it is.
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1195 Baltimore Pike
Gettysburg, PA 17325
ronsfi on March 17, 2010 at 6:11 PM
Really so which Republican beats him in 2012. So far I see all the light weights from the last go around. I am not hopeful.
inchdeep on March 17, 2010 at 6:11 PM
Don’t laugh…in a few years that will be on your $5 bill. Of course it will be worth 1 peso by then, but it’ll still by you a paperclip.
AUINSC on March 17, 2010 at 6:11 PM
The mere fact that this pathetic would-be caudillo holds the office of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln is an insult to the memory of those great men.
Cicero43 on March 17, 2010 at 6:11 PM
Hey Norris Flowers, your visitor center blows.
Joe Caps on March 17, 2010 at 6:12 PM
God this is stupid. Wouldn’t organizers invite whoever is the standing president at the time of the Gettysburg sesquicentennial?
rokemronnie on March 17, 2010 at 6:13 PM
I fully expected a Lincoln-Jesus mention in this post. I am thoroughly disappointed now. See what you did, Allah? See. What. You. Did.
amerpundit on March 17, 2010 at 6:14 PM
COMEDY GOLD.
He should give an address in a funhouse. Lots of mirrors and it’ll be tough to get a clear look at him.
TheUnrepentantGeek on March 17, 2010 at 6:14 PM
Bret is taking it to him.
John the Libertarian on March 17, 2010 at 6:15 PM
President…or Dictator for Life…whatever title he happens to hold at the time…lets not get picky.
RBMN on March 17, 2010 at 6:15 PM
This is so pathetic I can’t even imagine that this is true.
And yet, it is……
Stephanie on March 17, 2010 at 6:16 PM
Dang, you are good, AP. You sure had me foaming…then this! You deserve a raise.
Schadenfreude on March 17, 2010 at 6:16 PM
HOPEFULLY, Obama won’t be president by then. If he is WILL SOMEONE REMIND HIM THAT LINCOLN SPOKE FOR ONLY TWO MINUTES?
GarandFan on March 17, 2010 at 6:16 PM
Well duh!!
Of course he would give an address like this. But this new Gettysburg is just a dry run for when he reads his book that he wrote called mmm…Genesis!!
He really is our American Jesus you see!!!
All Hail the one we have been waiting for!!!!
PappyD61 on March 17, 2010 at 6:16 PM
+1.
What on earth would this two-bit community organizer, who never wore a uniform in his life, in fact who despises the military, have to say to the Fallen of either side, who haunt that hallowed ground?
North or South, both would spit upon this fool.
Rebar on March 17, 2010 at 6:16 PM
Bret already was the better of the two men. After today, Bret will be the god. The Primadonna in Chief will be yellow with envy.
Schadenfreude on March 17, 2010 at 6:17 PM
+4 score and 7.
KillerKane on March 17, 2010 at 6:18 PM
I look forward to the fool misreading sesquicentennial off the teleprompter.
Schadenfreude on March 17, 2010 at 6:20 PM
Desecration.
paul1149 on March 17, 2010 at 6:20 PM
Gettysburg Address? Shouldn’t it be the Sermon on the Mount?
Cicero43 on March 17, 2010 at 6:20 PM
Brevity is the soul of wit. Alas, the fool…
Schadenfreude on March 17, 2010 at 6:21 PM
Prediction:This misquote will be repeated over and over by wingnuts.
crr6 on March 17, 2010 at 6:21 PM
The difference is that Lincoln was a functioning President, not a place holder for Sarah Palin.
As a veteran, and the descendant of men who fought at Gettysburg, I am embarrassed for our nation that this imbecile is sitting in that same White House where the great Lincoln once resided, and where he led a nation through a trial by fire that other countries might well have not survived.
We deserve better than this. Our veterans deserve better than this, and the ghosts of our honored dead, whom Lincoln so eloquently honored at Gettysburg, deserve better than this.
To my mind, Obama is no different than Jefferson Davis, and he seeks the same outcome: a divided nation where a self-imposed elite lords over the citizenry like the Plantation Aristocracy of the antebellum South.
This nation should not, and must not, countenance such actions, and needs to return to our founding principles of free men, free markets, and limited government.
AW1 Tim on March 17, 2010 at 6:22 PM
crr6, repeat after me “it was a stupid thing to say”.
This will redeem some of your credibility.
Schadenfreude on March 17, 2010 at 6:22 PM
Ugh. Please.
I just ate dinner.
hillbillyjim on March 17, 2010 at 6:22 PM
Mission Accomplished.
LibTired on March 17, 2010 at 6:24 PM
If Obama does a GA redux, does this mean we’ll be in the midst of a second Civil War?
conservative pilgrim on March 17, 2010 at 6:26 PM
So, if someone else is president in 2013…does that offer still hold for whoever’s in the White House, or is it just all about The O?
Dr. ZhivBlago on March 17, 2010 at 6:26 PM
I’ve been to Gettysburg a couple of times; breathtaking. Was planning to go there again. May skip it now… way to turn off a lot of tourists.
Firefly_76 on March 17, 2010 at 6:26 PM
To repeat a phrase, “it’s fake but accurate!” Just keeping up to the same standards that Axelrod and his thugs are using.
AW1 Tim on March 17, 2010 at 6:26 PM
When Obama meets his maker, this quote on his memorial seems quite adequate. Or maybe on the edifice of his “library”.
BetseyRoss on March 17, 2010 at 6:26 PM
You’re right. The complete quote begins with “Let me be perfectly clear.”
conservative pilgrim on March 17, 2010 at 6:26 PM
To be fair, Lincoln only had the back of an envelope. Obama has TOTUS.
But my question is… will Obama bow and then apologize for the War of Northern Aggression?
malclave on March 17, 2010 at 6:27 PM
Look. If this passes the House, a healthcare reform bill will have passed the House twice and the Senate with a supermajority. Pointing out that Republicans are relying on complex procedural rules to slow or stop things despite the fact that a bill has passed repeatedly is not stupid, and will probably resonate with a lot of Americans.
crr6 on March 17, 2010 at 6:28 PM
Here’s the full quote for you. It’s not misquoted, it’s shortened. If people take it the wrong way, well. That’s their problem.
You know, like that good old straight down the middle mainstream media does every single day. And yet somehow, I’ve seen “Mission Accomplished” eleven million times in the last several years, and you were strangely silent. Curiouser and curiouser.
Now, the fact that he’s demonstrably lying through his with that quote doesn’t seem to bother you. Why, I can only imagine.
TheUnrepentantGeek on March 17, 2010 at 6:28 PM
Prediction: Your helping spread the quote around isn’t helping keep it contained.
amerpundit on March 17, 2010 at 6:28 PM
Oh it will. Just not in the way you’re thinking.
TheUnrepentantGeek on March 17, 2010 at 6:29 PM
Keep underestimating how much Americans care about procedure and rules, complex or otherwise It’s been working so well for you to date.
amerpundit on March 17, 2010 at 6:29 PM
There can be only one Gettysburg Address and only one man to give it.
ThePrez on March 17, 2010 at 6:30 PM
Then there’s the video of him saying.
AUINSC on March 17, 2010 at 6:30 PM
No one, to my mind, has ever accused leftists of thinking before they spoke.
AW1 Tim on March 17, 2010 at 6:30 PM
No.
Three different bills will have each been passed in one chamber.
malclave on March 17, 2010 at 6:30 PM
“Procedural rules” is substantially different than just “rules”.
crr6 on March 17, 2010 at 6:30 PM
BetseyRoss on March 17, 2010 at 6:26 PM
I’ve got his “library” right here.
Mary in LA on March 17, 2010 at 6:31 PM
Pretty much yeah. It looks like the bill will pass the House. Again.
crr6 on March 17, 2010 at 6:31 PM
Unless Sarah Palin is President. I think she’d give it a great recounting ;)
AW1 Tim on March 17, 2010 at 6:32 PM
Why don’t you explain the difference between ‘Procedural rules’ and ‘rule’.
AUINSC on March 17, 2010 at 6:32 PM
Let’s take him down to Ground Zero and have him recreate another moving presidential moment so in a 100 years when just about everyone is brainwashed they can think Obama was always the President and Godlike. Yeah let’s hear Barry tell Gorbachev to tear down this wall.
Denverslim on March 17, 2010 at 6:33 PM
They didn’t get it published by 6:00pm this evening, therefore they can’t vote on it on Saturday, therefore it won’t be passed before His Hindness finally embarks on his twice-delayed Indonesia trip. I am therefore inclined to be skeptical of your assertion.
Mary in LA on March 17, 2010 at 6:35 PM
If I were President, I would be honored to go to a commemoration of the anniversary of that battle, but I would be damned if any remarks I made would be seriously compared to one of the greatest speeches ever given!
NavyMustang on March 17, 2010 at 6:38 PM
A new coin for Obama:
The 3000% piece.
Cybergeezer on March 17, 2010 at 6:38 PM
I fully support this. You think he’s unpopular now? He’s got years to drop even lower, and then he’ll attempt this parody of a true
presidential speechleader. Lincoln wrote his speech on the train ride down, right? Obama will have $350,000 worth of writers making this one up three months in advance, and it’s likely that both the public and Obama will be hearing the speech for the first time simultaneously. Those things eventually won’t escape the notice of reporters. Heck, Gibbs even had to dodge a semi-difficult question by someone from NBC recently. Their own network briefly came after them. Yikes.Even more awesome? The only thing he’ll be able to connect himself to Gettysburg with won’t be Lincoln, but his skin color. “Hey, did y’all happen to notice I was black? How cool is that?” His speech will center around a genetic game of roulette. He’ll talk for an hour on the significance of something he had no say over vs. a failed presidential legacy in which he had control over the entire Executive office.
Please, Obama. Please attempt a Gettysburg re-creation. Your pride and insincerity and detachment will be so obvious…
rogerb on March 17, 2010 at 6:39 PM
There is nothing even remotely funny about this.
Osama Obama has no right to even set foot on a battlefield where brave Americans fought and died for what they believed in. Much less does he have any right to stand in a place where a patriotic American president stood.
Someone else had it right: this is desecration of a sacred national monument, worse even than the desecration of the White House by using it as a residence for an America-hating would-be tyrant.
MrScribbler on March 17, 2010 at 6:41 PM
Allow me….it’s right up there with ‘It depends on what your definition of ‘is’ is’.
BigWyo on March 17, 2010 at 6:41 PM
Tell ya what, just borrow “Mister Lincoln” from Disneyland’s Hall of Presidents. A Disney Audio-Animatronic is more Presidential than the guy we’ve got. :-P
Mary in LA on March 17, 2010 at 6:43 PM
I believe this is appropriate here.
hillbillyjim on March 17, 2010 at 6:43 PM
What has that to do with Democrats abusing complex procedural rules to make every American adult liable for a fine under a bill that never passed?
Yes all the empty-headed leftists will chorus like windchimes before the Mouth of the One.
Chris_Balsz on March 17, 2010 at 6:43 PM
One, for shame, you underestimate the American people.
Two, you are more ignorant than I assessed you to be, unless you are veeeeeery deceiving, almost as deceiving as is Obama.
Schadenfreude on March 17, 2010 at 6:44 PM
And what will you do if it does? You realize that taxes and fees start immediately and the “benefits” don’t start until 2013. That’s means you can’t be added to your parents insurance and you’ll have to buy your own … since you’ll have to buy a policy that covers everything, it might get pretty expensive.
I recommend just paying the fine which I believe is 2.5% of your income.
darwin on March 17, 2010 at 6:49 PM
Waterloo?
Buy Danish on March 17, 2010 at 6:49 PM
How about just a plain old sh*tter.
pseudonominus on March 17, 2010 at 6:50 PM
It just boggles my mind that someone like crr6 can be for a bill that destroys our current health care system, forces people to buy expensive policies under penalty of fine or jail and has the government dictating what they’ll pay for. In addition everyone who buys insurance has to pay a one dollar a month abortion fee.
Plus, nearly half of all doctors said they’d retire or quit.
Yeah, that’s a really good bill.
darwin on March 17, 2010 at 6:51 PM
Bob’s Bar and Grill?
darwin on March 17, 2010 at 6:52 PM
I hope it’s the beginning of a beautiful career on the lecture circuit for our historic one-term President.
chunderroad on March 17, 2010 at 6:53 PM
Galilee.
hillbillyjim on March 17, 2010 at 6:53 PM
“Again” implies that the House has passed it before. They have not.
malclave on March 17, 2010 at 6:54 PM
Having Obama speak at the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address is typical Chicago politics.
Proud Rino on March 17, 2010 at 6:54 PM
Hey, I’d watch if he was delivering it from the comfort of a much deserved prison cell.
BigWyo on March 17, 2010 at 6:56 PM
Krauthammer termed it “Krakatoa”
Schadenfreude on March 17, 2010 at 6:56 PM
The only things that Lincoln and Ojesus have in common are:
1. Extraordinary ears
2. They are both odd as hell
3. Alleged familiarity with the law
hillbillyjim on March 17, 2010 at 6:57 PM
More than 7%…
Seven Percent Solution on March 17, 2010 at 6:58 PM
Liberal law students are not very smart – see Obama and crr6.
Schadenfreude on March 17, 2010 at 6:58 PM
hillbillyjim on March 17, 2010 at 6:59 PM
4. Wives who were/are a couple of sandwiches shy of a picnic?
Mary in LA on March 17, 2010 at 7:01 PM
@#$% it. Preview is your friend, hillbillyjim.
hillbillyjim on March 17, 2010 at 7:01 PM
I don’t know about ya’ll, but I am going to speed up my visiting of national landmarks with my kids before Obama taints all of them.
TXMomof3 on March 17, 2010 at 7:01 PM
I can hardly wait to TOTUS at Gettysburg.
vcferlita on March 17, 2010 at 7:01 PM
Though I actually feel very sorry for Mary Todd Lincoln. She had good reason to be depressed, after losing one of her sons very young and her husband in the most traumatic way possible.
Mary in LA on March 17, 2010 at 7:02 PM
It’s odd that Obama wants to present himself as Lincoln.
Lincoln fought for the dissolution of slavery, whereas Obama seeks to institute it. Slave to the government. Slave to the dictates of corrupt men and fat bureaucrats, slave to radicals who want to run our lives and weed out the sick and old.
darwin on March 17, 2010 at 7:02 PM
Stay classy, Mary.
Proud Rino on March 17, 2010 at 7:04 PM
I don’t think you actually know what slavery is.
Proud Rino on March 17, 2010 at 7:05 PM
Always classier than you, Proud Hypocrite!
Mary in LA on March 17, 2010 at 7:07 PM
This would be cruel irony. Obama with his economic ‘philosophy’ and his ‘O’ Care economic impact(if it passes) is hurting Black Americans more than any other group. They’ll never escape poverty thanks to Obama’s stupidity. They can get all the benifits the ‘G’ has to offer, but there won’t be any economic activity to pay for any of it. I can’t wait ’till all the doctors retire or move to foreign countries. That sure is going to help poor people.
JimP on March 17, 2010 at 7:08 PM
You could have stopped there.
Mary in LA on March 17, 2010 at 7:08 PM
Loo, not Waterloo?
I know!Freedom is slavery! What do I win?
Buy Danish on March 17, 2010 at 7:09 PM
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