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Michelle Obama's speech > Gettysburg Address (Original Post)
cash__whatiwant
Sep 2012
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Arctic Dave
(13,812 posts)1. Wow. That would be funny if it wasn't for the significance
of the Gettysburg Address.
Sorry. I have give you a Fail on this one.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)9. I think adding EPIC to that fail is appropriate.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)2. Uh, no
This is a convention. These are political speeches.
The consecration of the site of a national tragedy is in a different category, and I doubt your sincerity.
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)3. oh for fuck sake
xocet
(3,871 posts)4. EPIC FAIL on your part....
Here is the text of the Gettysburg Address to refresh your memory:
Gettysburg Address - "Nicolay Copy"
Transcription:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon 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. We have come to dedicate a portion of it, as a final resting place for those who died here, that the nation might live. This we may, in all propriety do. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicatewe can not consecratewe can not hallow, this groundThe brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have hallowed it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here; while it can never forget what they did here.
It is rather for us, the living, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining before us that, from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the last full measure of devotionthat we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation, 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.
http://myloc.gov/Exhibitions/gettysburgaddress/exhibitionitems/ExhibitObjects/NicolayCopy.aspx
(Click on the link at the bottom of this page that reads - View Transcription)
Transcription:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon 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. We have come to dedicate a portion of it, as a final resting place for those who died here, that the nation might live. This we may, in all propriety do. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicatewe can not consecratewe can not hallow, this groundThe brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have hallowed it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here; while it can never forget what they did here.
It is rather for us, the living, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining before us that, from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the last full measure of devotionthat we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation, 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.
http://myloc.gov/Exhibitions/gettysburgaddress/exhibitionitems/ExhibitObjects/NicolayCopy.aspx
(Click on the link at the bottom of this page that reads - View Transcription)
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)5. Yeah no...
Also, what's wrong with that cat's eyes.
Grown2Hate
(2,009 posts)6. I loved it, but I think I'll give that one to President Gettysburg... or... wait, what were we
talking about?
Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)8. President Gettysburg...
Funny...
Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)7. I hope you're just kidding...
Otherwise that is a patently foolish thing to say.
And you know who would be the first to disagree with you? Michelle Obama.
tnvoter
(257 posts)10. just no
center rising
(971 posts)11. This was a good speech, but not the Gettysburg Address
Come on!!
cash__whatiwant
(396 posts)12. Lol @ the seriousness of the responses
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)13. That would be no
and that cat sucks.
DEAL WITH THAT
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