Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
November 19, 1863
The 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.

During the 2008 presidential election, there were many comparisons between the presidential candidate Barack Obama and our Greatest former president, Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln’s original Bible was used during the inauguration swearing in ceremony. The same route from Illinois to Washington DC was used, and much more.

While there are some similarities between these two men, there are abundance differences which directly affect our country today. This text will attempt to point out these very important differences.

Let’s begin with the political party affiliation. Lincoln was Republican and Obama is Democrat. It is historically accurate and verifiable that the Republican party has done much more toward the equality and liberty of the minorities in our nation over the years, and most especially for our Black Americans.

Rather than get into all that at this time, it is my intention to concentrate upon that which is most different between these two men.

COUNTERFEIT: Make a copy of with the intent to deceive. Not genuine; imitating something superior

Let’s reflect back upon Lincoln’s struggle with slavery and the Civil War.

The United States Civil War cost our nation over 600,000 military, and over 50,000 civilian lives. The insoluble differences between the Slave States and the Non-Slave States was seen by the slave states as a state’s rights issue. Slavery by the non-slave states was seen as a moral issue. Although Lincoln did attempt at several compromises with the slave states, they remained unwilling to compromise. The slave states began their caseation from the nation right after Lincoln was elected as President of the United States.

Those events are well recorded for the people of this nation, but recently some things have been conveniently forgotten. It is for this reason I have included Lincoln’s entire speech at Gettysburg, calling your attention to this line below:

“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.”

Lincoln stated that democracy and slavery cannot exist together. Of course it couldn’t while within the very principles of our young nation we proclaim liberty and equality.

Once again, we face an almost identical dilemma. Once again, we face the fact that half of our nation chooses that some of our people are less equal than others simply by a fact of heritage.

Lincoln was directly responsible for our great Civil War and the thousands of lost lives, and the many debilitating injuries. And yet, he was firm that this nation MUST remain united at all cost.

It was near his second election to the presidency when he felt it was now time to officially proclaim the end of slavery in our country. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."

This proclamation and the end of the civil was put an end to legal slavery in our nation. Even so, it was not until about 100 years later when Black Americans were given complete equality with the addition of several civil rights and other laws and court decisions.

Now again, we face this dilemma of equality and liberty.

In 1973 the case of Roe V Wade was decided in our Supreme Court with a 5 to 4 majority holding that a mother had a constitutional right to privacy within her own body and could abort the life of the child inside her.

In 2009, once again our current president has the authority to appoint a new supreme court justice. We are waiting for President Obama to make that announcement. He has in his pejorative the authority and ability to appoint someone who may make it possible to overturn this injustice we call Roe V Wade.

NOTE: Since this writing, Obama has selected a new Supreme Court Justice: Judge Sonia Sotomayor. Her Senate confirmation is pending. We will soon see the character of his selection.

Once again, our nation is strongly divided nearly in half. Once again our nation is depending upon ONE MAN to step into the history of our nation and either unite us or divide us.

Obama has made it abundantly clear of his position on Roe V Wade, and that he will certainly make this appointment with the primary concern to maintain Roe V Wade.

Once again we may be facing such division in our nation as to even exceed the great civil war in violence and calamity. The difference between 2009 and 1863 is that we had President Abraham Lincoln before. Today we have the direct opposite - or what I call the Counterfeit Lincoln.

While Lincoln held that slavery was such a horrific injustice that even war itself was justified. But Obama does not care about the innocent children who are being murdered by the millions.

The extreme irony of all this is that Lincoln’s efforts were to give liberty and equality to those among us who some states were denying, claiming those who were deemed as slaves (Africans) were not totally human, but held as only property. Whereas Obama’s efforts are directed at the opposite of Lincoln’s, intending to deny (once again) the humanity of a certain group of those among us - the unborn children.

The very people Lincoln’s efforts were geared to help, are the ones more directly harmed by Obama. This issue is both a secular and a spiritual issue. From a purely secular point of view, it is the Black unborn children who are being murdered at a higher rate than the other races of Americans. From a spiritual aspect, it is the African Americans who support Obama because they see him as being African too, even though he is also half White.

It is Black Americans, because of their bitterness and anger for their past treatment, who choose to see Obama as some kind of new Messiah who can do no wrong. Most Black Americans see themselves as being Christian, but when having to choose between the evil of murdering innocent children or putting God First, they have overwhelmingly chosen evil over good.

Obama is often called America’s First Black President. This erroneous title has given him a certain immunity when it comes to judging his actions. If one is that interested in Obama’s race, they should know that he is both or neither, but not either. It should be completely obvious to any decent and Godly peoples that the murder of innocent children, at any state of pregnancy, for any reason what-so-ever, even partially born, or even born alive from a botched abortion is intrinsically evil.

To defend and/or support such a concept as put forward by Obama is equally evil. Consequently, supporting Obama’s as a president of our nation is a direct support for evil itself.

I will take a moment here to explain some very basic concepts of our laws.

A principle to a crime is someone who aids or abets or encourages the act. All principles to a crime are equally guilty to the same crime.

Example: You drive the get-away car to a bank robbery, but you do not go inside the bank and participate in any way. But by knowing of the robbery and aids or abets or even just encourages the crime, makes you equally guilty under the law. I’ll even take this a step further; while inside the bank someone was killed as a result of the robbery. It does not matter if it was a bank employee or a customer or even a robber. Now you have become guilty of murder, even though you were only the get-away driver.

A accessory to a crime is someone who aids or abets ONLY AFTER the crime was committed.

These are the basic concepts of our secular laws, but what about God’s laws?

Jesus said in Luke 11:23, "He who is not with me is against me". Do you really think Jesus would be encouraging or supporting the murder of innocent children in our nation, by the millions? Really? If that’s what you believe, then you have never read the Bible or actually given your life to God..

There is a particular lady I happen to admire. Her name is Norma McCorvey. She is the Jane Roe of the Roe V Wade Supreme Court Decision of 1973. Norma has since realized what she did was wrong; both before men and before God. She writes about her sorrow and has repented of the evil acts which she played a part in those many years ago.

3rd John 1:11 [NIV] Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. Anyone who does what is good is from God. Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God.

Obama is now the Commander in Chief of the Army against God. More and more he is blocking historical government events which involve certain celebration or attention to God's existence or His role in our Nation's history. This again is the opposite of Lincoln who unashamedly acknowledged our dependence upon God in our nation. Once again, we come full circle back to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: "that this nation, under God".

No Indeed, this new man in Washington is not in the image of President Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln brought a war in which to free men and preserve the union. Obama is seeking to claim the freedom of men, which was actually brought about 150 years ago. Obama wishes not to preserve, but to "change" which in reality, means "destroy" this Nation. No indeed, he ain't no Lincoln.

Copyright © 2009 Greg Moore

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