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\nIf I’m in Darwin’s posse<\/a>, I’m definitely in Abe’s posse as well. To think the Republican Party of Lincoln now gives us GW – sigh.<\/p>\n

In honor his his birthday, we might take a moment to re-read his marvelous address at Gettysburg:<\/p>\n

\nFour 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate\u2014we can not consecrate\u2014we can not hallow\u2014this 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 \u2014 that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion \u2014 that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain \u2014 that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom \u2014 and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For more on the text (and the challenges of deciding exactly<\/em> what the text actually was) check out the Library of Congress<\/a> or Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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In honor his his birthday, we might take a moment to re-read his marvelous address at Gettysburg: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent … Continue reading “Happy Birthday Abe!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-general","category-politics"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-7u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":444,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/02\/05\/charles-darwin-has-a-posse\/","url_meta":{"origin":464,"position":0},"title":"Charles Darwin has a posse…","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"5 Feb 07","format":false,"excerpt":"...and I'm definitely on-board :-). 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