Obama gave a
good speech tonight at the memorial service in Newtown, CT. It was the type of appropriate speech we expect from any president in time of national tragedy.
But, as usual, some people need to make
every Obama speech historic, in this case likening it to the Gettysburg Address given by Lincoln on the dedication of the cemetary for the tens of thousands who died or were wounded in that battle:
There has been
pushback on this, but the best response was as follows:
Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863
Four score and seven years ago our 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 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 their lives 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 brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little
