THE NEW ORLEANS ADDRESS

FOUR YEARS AND SEVEN DAYS AGO I began to bring forth on this continent, an age old new vision, conceived in Tragedy, and dedicated to the proposition that some occasions are created more equal for our political opportunity.

NOW WE ARE ENGAGED in a great civil war in Iraq, and a testing here again in the south of our own nation. Can any nation so conceived and so dedicated long endure?  We are met on a great wasteland of my vision. We have come to dedicate the larger portion of our future fortune, at this final resting place where so many here lost their lives that that blind vision might live. It is not 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 brave men and women, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget how some died here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought in two dubious presidential elections have thus far so ignobly advanced.

IT IS RATHER FOR US to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these unfortunate dead we take increased devotion to our misguided cause for which the forgotten dead gave the full measure of their lives -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under me, shall have a new birth of tyranny-- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall perish from the earth.

Thank you and God Bless America.

Comments

[jillian]

Bush is gay?

[cruelanimal]

"I'm bored and seven tax cuts ago..."

[Paul]

Not government of the profiteers, by the profiteers, for the profiteers?

[Cairo the Boxer]

Scary pic. Brings a whole new meaning to Southern Reconstruction.

[Agi T. Prop]

oops. that was my dog posting, not me...

[PoliShifter]

Oy Heretik Oy

Just even mentioning Bush & Lincoln in the same post to me is blasphemy.

The Republican NeoCon like Sean Hannity et al love to make reference to history that Lincoln was a "Republican".

The sad thing is Heretik while I know you meant it as satire and fun...There are some people (~40%) in America what may actually take your post seriously. They think Bush is a great president and look forward to him being on our currency in the future (if we have a futer as a nation).

Oy Heretik Oy

Brilliant and Funny Yet Scary and Tragic at the same time.