Why Obama didn't go to Gettysburg...

[marv]

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/why-president-didn-t-go_767923.html

(snip)

...the president, no doubt, has his reasons and among them, the one most deserving of respect, perhaps, is the fact that he is an orator, himself and … well doesn’t want to invite comparisons that are less than flattering.

It’s what Flannery O’Connor had in mind, no doubt, when she wrote of the challenges the sheer presence of William Faulker created for the Southern writer:

The presence alone of Faulkner in our midst makes a great difference in what the writer can and cannot permit himself to do. Nobody wants his mule and wagon stalled on the same track the Dixie Limited is roaring down.

[Dori]

Obama never misses a chance to insert himself into just about everything, so skipping this event puzzles me.  It would have detracted the media attention away from Obamacare and also put emphasis on the evils of slavery, how terrible the country was and all those terrible white racists.





 

[JohnnyReb]

Obama never misses a chance to insert himself into just about everything, so skipping this event puzzles me.  It would have detracted the media attention away from Obamacare and also put emphasis on the evils of slavery, how terrible the country was and all those terrible white racists.

Hey, he didn't go because he might slip up and say something good about a republican....can't have that happening.

[DLR Pyro]

he doesn't want to do anything to acknowledge that it was a republican President who ended slavery in America.

[Dori]

he doesn't want to do anything to acknowledge that it was a republican President who ended slavery in America.

He has compared himself to Lincoln in the past.  He even gave his acceptance speeches on the steps of the Lincoln memorial.

[Ptarmigan]

Abraham Lincoln is reeling in his grave.

[JohnnyReb]

Abraham Lincoln is reeling in his grave.

Maybe someone told Obama what Lincoln's opinion of blacks really was.

[marv]

he doesn't want to do anything to acknowledge that it was a republican President who ended slavery in America.

But thanks to his edumakation department, kollege students are now confused as to whether President Lincoln was a Republican or Dhimocrap.