Freep-holes are calling today's speech "Bush's Gettysburg." Seriously.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

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Recommended reading: Bush's Gettysburg

http://donsurber.blogspot.com/2005/11/bushs-gettysburg.html

832 posted on 11/11/2005 1:21:11 PM PST by bnelson44 (Proud parent of a tanker!)

Friday, November 11
Bush's Gettysburg



http://donsurber.blogspot.com/2005/11/bushs-gettysburg.html

From a small town in Pennsylvania, the president came to finally answer critics of an increasingly unpopular war, a war that Democrats hoped would sweep them into office in the next election.

But enough about Lincoln at Gettysburg 142 Novembers ago; let me analyze George Walker Bush's speech today in Tobyhanna, Pa.

Much attention is being given to his blasting the revisionist history of Democrats who supported the war to get by the 2002 election and now cluck their tongues.

Who cares?

WMD were not what this war was -- or is -- about. The president:

"If the peoples of that region are permitted to choose their own destiny, and advance by their own energy and participation of free men and women, then the extremists will be marginalized, and the flow of violent radicalism to the rest of the world will slow and eventually end. By standing for hope and freedom of others, we make our own freedom more secure."

That is it. That in a nutshell is how America will be free: By making sure that all men enjoy the rights to which they were endowed by their Creator.
America is not alone. The president noted:

"General David Petraeus says, "Iraqis are in the fight. They're fighting and dying for their country, and they're fighting increasingly well." This progress is not easy, but it is steady. And no fair-minded person should ignore, deny, or dismiss the achievements of the Iraqi people."

These are things that should have been said a long time ago. But like Lincoln in November 1863, Bush had to wait for the right moment.

"We don't know the course of our own struggle will take, or the sacrifices that might lie ahead. We do know, however, that the defense of freedom is worth our sacrifice, we do know the love of freedom is the mightiest force of history, and we do know the cause of freedom will once again prevail."

God bless America, and God bless our commander-in-chief on this Veterans Day.

[niceypoo]

1. Severe case of wishful thinking.......

Attempting to blame others for his actions with ancient long discredited talking points will only dig him deeper. Keep talking Bush!

[Faygo Kid]

2. Waterloo, not Gettysburg, comes to mind.

The Freepers often cross over into blasphemy in their worship of W.

[quiet.american]

5. Excellent retort. Nails it. n/t

[unblock]

3. in the sense that gettysburg marked the highwater mark for the south, yes.

it was all downhill for the south after that.

note: "his gettysburg", not "his gettysburg address"

[LisaM]

4. Are they claiming Bush wrote it himself?

As Lincoln did the Gettysburg speech? Right before he gave it?

[ticapnews]

6. I'm sorry, but that doesn't even compare

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 so 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 note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Bush is incapable of making a speech like this.

[rkc3]

18. Making a speech like this? He couldn't even read this speech properly!

[bahrbearian]

7. Oh another scar in our history, another bloody mess ?

[DearAbby]

8. STOP Bwahahahahahahaw I'm gonna pee my pants! Bawahahahaha

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[DenaliDemocrat]

9. Looking at that guys picture I finally realized

being repulican is all about the money because these guys were too ugly to ever get laid.

[DearAbby]

12. Bwahahahahahahaw Bawahahahahaw

yer killin me here!

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[Lindsay]

10. Oy.

I've met Surber; we used to post on the same Cleveland Indians forum.

Now I remember why I left that forum - couldn't handle the right wingers there.

[LaurenG]

11. Bush must feed the minions of evil in freeperville

he doesn't want them to know that he IS going down. He's liar as usual and freepers eat that stuff like it's candy. Remember Fitzgerald, it isn't over but Bush can pretend, for now...

[CottonBear]

13. Bush* is not "our (the citizens of the USA) commander-in-chief."

He (unfortunately) is the commander in chief of the Armed Forces.

I hate it when these freeper, chickenhawk types try to associate themselves with the military.

What an idiot.

The question should be "When will we free ourselves from Bush*?"

[Contrary1]

14. "WMD were not what this war was -- or is -- about. "

WTF? Since when?

Oh, that's right. Since that lie backfired on them.

[Burried News]

15. Good George - keep going - destroy your whole party.

They deserve us for ever letting you get this far.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

16. That "small town" in PA

is not a "small town," but, rather, home to Tobyhanna. The maintenance and repair facility at Tobyhanna is owned lock, stock and barrel by the US Army. All those nice, fat US Government paychecks ... probably the best paid 4200 ordinary people in NE Pennsylvania these days.

Another paid audience for Fuckface.

[slor]

17. More like a "Goofysberg Address" n/t

[Neil Lisst]

19. The only similarity between Bush and Lincoln is ..

... they both left office with less than a full complement of brains

[DS1]

20. Father Ted does political satire now?

[derby378]

21. More like "Bush's Last Stand"

Or maybe "Bush's Waterloo." Whichdoyoolike?

[C_U_L8R]

22. Oh Please....

what poop.

Dubya will prove to be
(and has already proven to be)
the worst president ever,
It;s tragic that a president of our nation
is so doomed to be so utterly forgettable

[SteppingRazor]

23. Must... provide... valid... criticism...

Must... not... just... make fun.... of.... mindnumbingly dorky guy... so... difficult...

[PaulaFarrell]

24. A little gem

Don't let the polls fool you. Respondents were contacted by land line, and if you check, the respondents are nonvoters and heavily democrat. Even the FOX poll is something like 10% democrat heavy!
In the high tech world today, who the heck would answer a land line telephone? The unemployed with nothing better to do, of course.

Pollsters, the democrat party, and the MSM are going the way of the dinosaur, and they know it. There's cell phone and answering machines, the Internet, and talk radio. Have you noticed how the left wing machine has been acting lately? They're gasping, gnawing, and scratching to survive. They're spitting green pea soup all over the place!!
806 posted on 11/11/2005 12:00:23 PM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal.")
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I, of course, always ignore my land line when it rings as I'm far too busy speaking on the mobile.

[IChing]

25. Sorry most Faux viewers don't have a computer or a high speed connection

Techies and the under privileged use cells and voip.

Now they are saying that people that use cells are * supporters, at what church or study has he seen this? Not much research going on there with this guy, most of the inner cities use cells because a land line is a twice as much in monthly fees. OR they use pay phones.

[BlueManDude]

26. It was a disgusting speech that dishonored to all veterans

It was a speech not about them - but him. Sick fuck.

[Catrina]

27. And he rewrote the history of this war!

As I recall, the war, as sold by him and his co-horts, was about WMDs, Mushroom clouds, Uranium, Nuclear Weapons ready in 45 minutes to strike the US. The lie about Iraq/9/11 When did it become about 'freedom for the Iraqi people?'

I remember, it was after they realized they could't find the WMD and couldn't use that as an excuse anymore. So they rewrote the history of the war back then. Then it changed again! And again! And now it's about fighting them 'over there so we don't have to fight them over here' and 'freedom and democracy' and whatever else they can come up with to hide the fact that this war got support because they lied to the American people about Iraq's WMD and about a connnection between Iraq and 9/11.

Now, he's re-writing the history of the war.

Btw, why are Republicans trying to blame Democrats for this war? If it's such a good idea, why would they not want to claim complete responsibility for it?

[kevinbgoode]

28. Hmm..then how come there was no Emancipation Proclamation

freeing the gay couples from a life of official "singledom?" And why didn't the Prez speak in Dover, PA. . .just to endure the wrath of Pat Robertson, his bud and pal and the man who knew about the invasion of Iraq before the rest of us did?