Obama Omits "Under God" From President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

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Obama Omits "Under God" From President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

Birther Report
11/19/2013

Excerpt:

Obama Omits "Under God" From President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
[ update below ]

Resident Soetoro recited President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address... with "under God" omitted...

VIDEO ...:

( Video via Ken Burns. )

As Gateway Pundit points out: It’s not the first time Obama omitted God or Creator from a speech.

Here's President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address:

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.

Abraham Lincoln

November 19, 1863

UPDATE VIA WMAL:

As first reported on WMAL's Chris Plante Show Tuesday, the Commander-in-Chief joined a cast of 61 other noted lawmakers, politicians, news anchors and celebrities, including every living President, in reciting the Gettysburg Address, which President Abraham Lincoln delivered on November 19, 1863.

The dignitaries all delivered the address as Lincoln had written it, including the phrase, "that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom." (Click to listen). Curiously, however, in his version of the address, President Obama omitted the words "under God." [...] - WMAL.

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Carney Explains Obama ‘Omission’ of God from Gettysburg Address to CBS’s Major Garrett

Mediaite
Tommy Christopher
11/20/2013

Excerpt:

After President Obama‘s recitation of the Gettysburg Address for documentarian Ken Burns ignited a firestorm among conservatives, but before the matter had been definitively laid to rest, CBS News’ Major Garrett asked White House Press Secretary Jay Carney to explain the President’s selection of a draft that did not include the phrase “under God.”

As the rest of the internet would soon learn, Carney explained why the President’s recitation of the speech did not include the phrase “under God,” which turned out not to be an “omission.”

“Now, you may not know the answer to this, but I want to bring this up to you,” Garrett began. “I know you know this, but the President is one of 61 famous politicians, historians and others who have cited the Gettysburg Address for Ken Burns.”

“Now, there are two copies of that Gettysburg Address,” he continued. “One is called the Nicolay and one is called the Hay, and both are in the Library of Congress. Neither of them include ‘under God,’ which is the way the President read it. Many others included a reference to God in the Gettysburg Address. I’m just curious if you know why the President read it that way?”

The Burns site contains a link to information about the five existing copies of the speech, and notes that three of them “were written by Lincoln for charitable purposes well after the Nov. 19, 1863, event.”

” I think he read the version of the address that Ken Burns provided,” Carney replied. “I think Ken Burns is a noted Civil War scholar.”
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