It’s the 155th anniversary of the battle: Six life lessons.
[Update late afternoon]
“No substitute for total victory.”
Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that, but if it does, the Democrats will lose again. Because they’re not liberals.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Reading through, I saw this:
That the Democrats sorely miss Obama — a prize con man all his life — is no surprise. Their superannuated party is visibly falling apart, and the fact that the Democrat-Media Complex instantaneously made a star out of a young woman nobody had ever heard of before Tuesday’s New York primaries tell you all you need to know about how desperate they are.
The Democrats, however, should be directing their anger not at Trump and the Republicans, but at themselves. Had they let Hillary have her turn in 2008, instead of roundheeling for Barry, she very well might have won against either McCain or Romney and then passed the baton to Obama who, with four to eight years’ more seasoning, would have been perfectly positioned to finish the “progressive” demolition of America.
As usual, however, they let their passions control their heads and just couldn’t wait to “make history” (like all true Marxists, they’re obsessed with history) by nominating the first plausible black (or, more accurately, mixed-race) candidate for president, and so got ahead of themselves when they should have been taking the long view. By the time Mrs. Clinton’s turn finally came around — and only after rigging the primaries in order to be able to defeat the aging communist Bernie Sanders — who wasn’t even a registered Democrat — she was flyblown and shopworn. A more mature Obama would have been a very dangerous individual indeed, but the still-youthful Barry of 2008-16 was, luckily for us, too indolent and obsessed with golf and hip-hop parties to do as much damage as he might have.
That was their second big mistake (well, third, if you count health care and gun control in 1993, which ended up giving the Republicans Congress for the first time in four decades). If they had removed Clinton in 1999, as they should have, and installed Gore, he’d have almost certainly won in 2000.
Prior to Gettysburg it was THESE United States. Afterwards it has always been THE United States.
Well you could argue it was the outcome of the war. But it was the last campaign the southern states waged on northern territory.
I first visited Gettysburg in 2009, and was astonished at the sheer extent of the battlefield. It was July 5th, and the heat index was pretty close to what it had been in 1863. I couldn’t imagine men wearing wool uniforms fighting in those conditions.
The one thing I did see was why they picked that place for a battle. There are these big monuments all over the place where one could take cover from enemy fire. If I had to fight a big battle, Gettysburg would top my list of places to do it.
I’ve probably told this story before, but I was there on the 4th of July in the mid-eighties. I climbed to the top of Big Round Top, and saw the union trenches, and tried to imagine what it would have been like to see the gray uniforms attempt to advance from below. Then I heard cannon fire, and sort of had a Twilight Zone moment, until I looked at my watch, saw it was noon, and figured they must have been firing in the town square to celebrate the holiday. Drove down to DC that afternoon, stayed at the Crystal Marriott, and we saw fireworks on the Mall.
A monument only protects a Civil War soldier from rifle fire from in front — it doesn’t protect from exploding grape-shot cannisters fired from howitzers and plunging downward?
That is why the monuments aren’t pock-marked from battle damage — they didn’t provide effective cover?
For similar reasons, I never read Shakespeare. His writing is just full of cliches.
Yeah, and so is Lincoln’s!
And puns, don’t forget the puns.
Aside from any specific tactics Hillary could have used during the campaign, if she would have left Bill after Monica, then the Access Hollywood tape might have done some damage to Trump. And if she just followed the rules as Secretary of State, then none of this server, email, Wiener stuff would have happened or mattered. One or both of those probably would have meant President Hillary.
Of course, corruption is her character. An ethical upstanding Hillary that governed in good faith wouldn’t be Hillary. It would be an entirely different person. Maybe VFH is onto something.