The following is from the Tales of the Freeway Blogger. It is a response to the multitudinous inanities spewing forth from the mouths of the pundits at Fox News (and other, real, news services) as to whether Obama can weather his poor choice of words in some recent comments or whether he is doomed politically.Will Lincoln Survive "Gettysburg" Comments?
Transcript from "Hannity's America" November 20, 1863
Sean Hannity: Well, we've got the transcript right here and it looks like Mr. Lincoln's really put his foot in it this time. The question for our panelists is: "After Gettysburg, Does Lincoln still have a chance for re-election?" Pat?
Pat Buchanan: I'd have to say no Sean. Right from the start he's set himself up as another liberal elitist, hopelessly out of touch with the voters. "Four Score and Seven..." The number he's looking for is eighty-seven. Maybe if he put down his chablis and brie plate for a minute he'd understand how real people actually speak.
Laura Ingraham: And the whole thing was written on the back of an envelope for cryin' out loud. Hey Abe, get a clue: It's called "paper." Not everybody can use a perfectly good envelope, which as all Americans know is meant for mailing things...and he uses it for scratch paper! Give me a break!
Sean Hannity: Let's go a little further down here to the comments that really seem to have set American's teeth on edge, the part about not being able to dedicate, consecrate or "hallow", whatever that means, this ground. It is wise for someone running for re-election to tell us what we can't do? Does he just hate Americans? Pat?
Pat Buchanan: Sure sounds like it to me.
Laura Ingraham: Well, he certainly doesn't seem to care much for women that's for sure: "Our fathers"? "Brave men"? "All men are created equal?" I tell you, if women could vote, they certainly wouldn't vote for him!
Sean Hannity: And here he says we're engaged in a "Great Civil War." Really, Mr. President? I bet there's a lot of Americans out there who'd like to know what you think is so great about it. He also says, "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here..." I bet now he sure wishes we're not gonna remember!
Pat Buchanan: I know it's a small point, but isn't "Abraham" a Jewish name?
(Again, thanks to the Freeway Blogger!)
1 comment:
If those guys had been around then, Lincoln would not have been elected. Think of what a difference that would have made. Obama would be in the cotton fields, happily singing spirituals, if his antecedents couldn’t run fast enough to escape capture. Buchannan would have dies in Ireland while cursing the English, the Spaniards and the Jews. (I do not know what the Jews had to do with the famine in Ireland but he is not known for hating based on facts) The rest of that crew would not have gone to college and who knows much about them anyway.
I am glad there was no real news that day. That means a few more people did not die of hunger or mad violence anywhere. No news is supposed to be good news but I am not sure of that anymore.
Bob Poris
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