On the day they tell us about a bearded American..

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I was watching the late evening news after a hard day being distracted by the farce that milled about me at work and for some reason an early photograph of a bearded American suffering from acromegaly caused some of your extant though repudiated by the constitution presidents to wax lyrical.

Assuming these persons were simply putting their oar in so as to seem relevant I gave it scant thought but later remembered a musing from a few days ago,Mr Bush Junior,apart from his war on terror I could think of nothing his presidency had actually achieved that my American posters had actually felt positive enough to mention.

Several days ago we also had a documentary exposing the killing of Kennedy,not by Oswald or some other with his Mannlicher from the book repository or from an undisclosed location but by the secret serviceman brandishing his AR12 with frangible rounds in the following car.

Is this the origin of Heckuva Job?

I'm sure I missed out the Aliens.
 
It also occurs to me your Mr Lincoln suffered from his various maladies during the golden age of Snake Oil,did he always gargle down a bottle before engagements?

Would anyone actually know?
 
History is what historians make of it. At the time, the Gettysburg address was not considered anything particularly important. In fact, it was over so quickly that only a single photo exists of the event. There is some confusion over the exact wording - five remaining manuscripts all differ in one aspect or other. But ultimately there was something about the speech which captured not only the common imagination, but which has had amazing lasting power. Perhaps it is because the speech succinctly captures (for many people) what it means to be American. A lofty goal, not achieved, perhaps never to be achieved. But inspirational, regardless.
 
Hmm,Turkey diners had not yet been invented.

I guess people only started eating the fowl after the cowboys had exterminated the tasty Buffalo.
 
George W. Bush presidency achieved nothing in your mind? I was fond of his average unemployment rate of just 5.3 % despite suffering the worst terrorist attack during the first year of his presidency keep in mind that those rates were not adjusted like they currently are to discount people who have been out of a job for a year, add to that the fact that we never suffered another attack under his watch. I appreciate the fact that President Bush never took us to war without the approval of congress either. Perhaps if Neville Chamberlain had the testosterone to grow a beard he may not have signed the Munich agreement .....

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Sounds like someone is still bitter over the American Revolution!

I am not a historian or anything. I do remember though, that England was a huge supporter of our war on terror after 9/11, when the friggin' UN wouldn't back us. I gained a lot of respect for England because of their support.
 
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