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In reply to the discussion: Obama won't attend remembrance for 150th anniversary of Gettysburg Address [View all]2naSalit
(86,330 posts)35. I agree with you
and SKIP about the event.
There will be all those re-enactors who will want to bring their black powder gunz and all that. They would be pissed if they had to disarm because Obama was there and there is too much potential for disruption all around.
As Jeff Foxworthy might say, "There's gonna be 1400 civil war re-enactors there and the first black president of the US all in one national park where a defining battle where the south lost happened... you just KNOW we're gonna mess that up."
revised joke Jeff Foxworthy made before the Olympics were held in Atlanta regarding the hundreds of live doves that were to be released for the opening ceremony and all the bird hunters that live in the region... from memory
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Obama won't attend remembrance for 150th anniversary of Gettysburg Address [View all]
TexasTowelie
Oct 2013
OP
So the most powerful person in the world, who just may have something IMPORTANT to do...
George II
Oct 2013
#31
Actually, the buck should stop with his Security Detail in situations like this.
Myrina
Nov 2013
#61
So you are saying that the President can visit national parks in his own country?
dbackjon
Nov 2013
#67
This has to do with PA gov. Corbett's re-election campaign. Keep your powder
msanthrope
Nov 2013
#62
"He had no problem using the Old State Capitol Building as a prop to launch his election campaigns".
George II
Oct 2013
#32
What are the precise and relevant memorials each and every president should attend...?
LanternWaste
Nov 2013
#66
How come not enough people gave two shits when G.W.Bush and Cheney committed war crimes
Quantess
Oct 2013
#15
Agree completely ... its more of the same old manufactured outrage that gets pushed
JoePhilly
Oct 2013
#23
i would like for him to attend this but i can understand why, they know what a lot of the
JI7
Oct 2013
#26
bad optics from the man who was sworn into office with his hand on Lincoln's Bible n/t
Psephos
Oct 2013
#38
He could make a brief statement from the Oval Office. Or the Lincoln Memorial.
truthisfreedom
Nov 2013
#49
Which civil war events' 150th anniversary does one pick and choose to commemorate
geek tragedy
Nov 2013
#56
I fancy myself a bit of a civil war buff, and my first choice of an event for Obama would be this
Sheldon Cooper
Nov 2013
#57
And if he'd chosen to go, imagine what the wingnut turnout would have been.
winter is coming
Nov 2013
#64