Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Conservatives flip out after Obama reads original Gettysburg Address without ‘under God’


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/19/conservatives-flip-out-after-obama-reads-original-gettysburg-address-without-under-god/

Conservative websites on Tuesday expressed outraged after President Barack Obama read an original version of President Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, which did not include the words “under God.”
In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, filmmaker Ken Burns asked dozens of public figures to read the speech.
According to Media Matters, Burns specifically asked the president to read from the “Nicolay Version,” which was written before the phrase “under God” was added:
“It is rather for us, the living, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that, from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the last full measure of devotion – that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation, 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.”
The phrase, however, was changed slightly by the time the speech was delivered by Lincoln: “that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.”
there they go again railing about something they know nothing about, does your God hate, take food out of children's mouths, deny them health care, lie to them continually,  show no love for all the people of the world, deny the rights guaranteed by the constitution the ones they call God given?
so in short what the fuss he read what he was asked to read as written but the republicans see it as a piece of knit they just have to pick but the God added later to the speech is obviously not their God so again what the fuss?