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In reply to the discussion: some of the twitterverse -- comments on biden's speech tonight [View all]littlemissmartypants
(32,283 posts)12. He was trying to be eloquent while actually bastardizing a speech by Lincoln.
July 10, 1858
...If they look back through this history to trace their connection with those days by blood, they find they have none, they cannot carry themselves back into that glorious epoch and make themselves feel that they are part of us, but when they look through that old Declaration of Independence they find that those old men say that "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal," and then they feel that that moral sentiment taught in that day evidences their relation to those men, that it is the father of all moral principle in them, and that they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote that Declaration, (loud and long continued applause) and so they are. That is the electric cord in that Declaration that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving men together, that will link those patriotic hearts as long as the love of freedom exists in the minds of men throughout the world.
https://vindicatingthefounders.com/library/electric-cord-speech.html
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He was trying to be eloquent while actually bastardizing a speech by Lincoln.
littlemissmartypants
Sep 2022
#12
I've got to think that "electric cord" should be "electric chord" where electric means......
EarnestPutz
Sep 2022
#34
You're no doubt right. Re-reading the speech again makes me see how "cord" makes more sense
EarnestPutz
Sep 2022
#38
these are people in my twitter feed that i follow. i don't think i left anyone out--
orleans
Sep 2022
#21
I hear ya! Best thing about Twitter you can eliminate anyone you want :-)
Laura PourMeADrink
Sep 2022
#25