SEVEN SCORE AND FOUR YEARS AGO

November 19th, 2007 marks the 144th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Long before an internet age when all is recorded and rehashed, Mr. Lincoln predicted that “they will little note nor long remember what we say here”, but the nation and history obviously did. Also ironically this speech for the ages which began with so elegant a chronology “FOUR score and SEVEN years ago” is now SEVEN score and FOUR years old, and hasn’t aged a bit. Would that the current leaders of the Republican Party who so repeatedly play on Mr. Lincoln’s name at some point, exhibit a fraction of the progressively, fairness and dare we hope, eloquence of their great predecessor.