by NW Spotlight
President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address [1] on this day 150 years ago, on November 19, 1863. As a part of a project to mark the 150th anniversary, filmmaker Ken Burns recorded President Obama reading the Gettysburg Address and uploaded the video [2] to Youtube.
Conservative internet news aggregator Weasel Zippers noticed [3] that President Obama left out the words “under God” from the address.
So President Obama, who was sworn in [4] with President Lincoln’s Bible, decided to drop God from President Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
This is the same President Obama who intervened directly [5] to add God back into the Democratic Party platform last year, when Democrats voted to remove God.
President Obama didn’t even substitute “God” for “Love” – like Oregon state Rep. Carolyn Tomei did [6] earlier this year with the Pledge of Allegiance. President Obama just dropped God altogether from President Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
UPDATE [from Breitbart.com [7]]: “A text box now appears on the Ken Burns website www.learntheaddress.org [8] which states: ‘Did you know there are five versions of the Gettysburg Address? We asked President Obama to read the first, the Nicolay Version.’ A cached [9] version of the same webpage from several days ago shows no such reference.”