The Gettysburg Address delivered by President Abraham Lincoln is one of the best know speeches in American history.  President Lincoln composed it.  I decomposed it.  This is how it might have been written 146 years later.

Four and seven months ago the inexperienced voters brought forth to this continent a new nation, conceived in Change, and dedicated to the proposition that all men and women deserve health care.

Now we are engaged in a great debate, testing whether this nation, like other nations, so conceived and so dedicated, can afford it.  We are met on a great battle-field of that debate.  We have come to dedicate this town hall meeting as a final attempt to push our agenda on those who are bewildered, baffled, and confused.  It is altogether reckless and scheming that we should do this.

But in a larger sense, we cannot agree. . .we cannot get along. . .we cannot make progress on this issue.  The people who need health care don’t know if they will get it.  The world will little note, nor long remember what I say here, but it will never forget the price tag.  It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work for which I was elected.  That from these sick people around me we take increased devotion to the cause for which I will give the last full measure of devotion – that my administration resolves that my agenda will not need the health care I’m offering you.  That this nation, under all the gods, shall have a change of freedom, and that government: of the elected, by the judges, for the special interests shall not perish from the earth.

If you find my sarcasm offensive please accept my apology. If you like it, you may enjoy my take on The Preamble to the Constitution.

Special thanks to the following web site for the picture.

http://themovingtarget.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/five-ways-that-obama-should-not-emulate-lincoln/