{"id":115,"date":"2008-03-19T18:44:59","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T01:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=115"},"modified":"2008-03-19T18:44:59","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T01:44:59","slug":"if-ann-coulter-had-liveblogged-the-gettysburg-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2008\/03\/19\/if-ann-coulter-had-liveblogged-the-gettysburg-address\/","title":{"rendered":"“If Ann Coulter had liveblogged the Gettysburg Address”"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Mark Kleinam on The Reality Based Community<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Old Abe is approaching the podium, looking even more like a badly-dressed and ill-proportioned scarecrow suffering from a depressive disorder than he usually does. I mean, if you’re going to be an empty suit, couldn’t you at least find a suit that fits?<\/p>\n

And as usual, he’s not wearing an American flag lapel pin. Too good for it, I suppose. Probably thinks it’s tacky, and that “real patriotism” doesn’t have to be displayed. Typical intellectual arrogance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and much more, with Ann providing line-by-line commentary<\/p>\n

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Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Right. As if Mr. Lincoln’s victory over his sectional enemies on behalf of his black friends were the same as the survival of the nation. It all comes back to the cult of personality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, no. It would be more “fitting and proper” to leave the dead in peace rather than to use them as a club with which to beat conservatives. But Lincoln, like all liberals, is completely shameless. Joshua is right: they’re basically fascists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Before concluding<\/p>\n

What an insult. Talk about mailing it in! Why did he bother to come all the way from Washington if he didn’t have anything to say?<\/p>\n

And there you have it. Perfect Lincoln. Pretty words, as long as you don’t try to find any meaning. No plan. No willingness to work hard. His inexperience continues to show through.<\/p>\n

Unlike McClellan, a real fighter with real national-security credentials, this man simply does not pass the Commander-in-Chief threshold. If the Republicans re-nominate this skinny, funny-looking lawyer from Illinois, they’re dead meat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the whole thing. Trust me<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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