Palin goes to Fairbanks for end of Iron Dog and has Gettysburg address butchered in her honor.

You have all heard the Gettysburg address haven't you? It goes something like this:

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.

It was delivered by Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg, and is considered by many to be the most important speech every delivered by a President of the United States.

No politician in their right mind would dare mock, or allow to mocked in their presence, a speech as revered as this one by perhaps our greatest President. No one that is except Sarah Palin.

In keeping with the Lincoln Bicentennial theme, Gov. Sarah Palin was introduced with a revised, Alaska version of the Gettysburg Address at Saturday night’s Lincoln Day Dinner hosted by Fairbanks Republican Women.

“Two score and five years ago,” intoned moderator Ralph Seekins to a capacity crowd in the Edgewater Room at the Princess Riverside Lodge, instantly perking up the ears of people familiar with the real address.

And as Seekins humorously transposed the words to fit the Republican governor, the crowd responded with laughter and applause.

“That all women can do what they set their minds to, whether it be running for governor, the vice presidency or field dressing a caribou. ...

“Few will remember what we ate here but never what she said here, or some, in the media what she wears here.”

“And that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from Alaska.”

Look I understand that Sarah Palin is not terribly well educated, and does not have a lot of class, but what kind of a moron allows this famous speech by Abraham Lincoln to be ridiculed the day before we celebrate his memory? I mean seriously how completely out of touch must you be?

She should have absolutely refused to participate if she knew before hand that Ralph Seekins was going to modify this speech, and if she did not know then she should have immediately apologized for it right after she heard it. That would have been the appropriate response.

Oh but her participation in the abuse of the memory of Abraham Lincoln did not end there. Oh no.

Like Lincoln, who was interested in building transportation infrastructure such as roads, railroads and harbors, Palin said, so too are Alaskans in developing the same infrastructure as well as opening up more federal land.

“We’ve got to let the federal government know we can responsibly and safely develop our natural resources,” she said.

Palin extolled Republicans as knowing how to run their businesses and families best and never becoming a slave to big government.

“We need to turn it around so government is working for us,” she said.

So Governor Palin seems to think that the lessons of Abraham Lincoln are to continue to drill great holes in the Alaska wilderness and ignore the the needs of the indigenous people in favor of earning the government large sums of money from an industry that is contributing to the death of our planet? Is that what Sarah Palin learned by reading about Abraham Lincoln, the great emancipator?

This woman once again proves herself to be completely without any sense of shame or common decency. And do you know what, this is not even the worst part. The worst part of this entire debacle is that the only reason Governor Palin even showed up to this little soiree is so that she could travel to Fairbanks and meet her husband as he finished his little snowmachine race ON THE STATE'S DIME! Now she can charge the citizens of Alaska for the airfare because by giving a speech it becomes state business! Can you believe that shit?

And not only that she had to drag a FOX News crew up there with her!

Okay my fellow Alaskans are we done yet? Have we had enough? Don't you feel it is time we did something and took our state out of the hands of this trainwreck of a Governor? Because by God I do!