CalPundit channels a typical political weblog's take on the Gettysburg Address:

CalPundit -- Kevin Drum: ...But I wonder....do any of them realize what they really sound like? Like this, for example:

Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new Nation,

Jesus H. Christ, does Abe seriously think that our country got started by the Declaration of Independence? Since he obviously has trouble with anything that happened before he was born, I'll clue him in: it was the constitution that got us started, big guy. That was 73 years ago, not 87.

conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

"Created equal"? The author of his beloved Declaration of Independence owned slaves!

Now, we are engaged in a great Civil War, testing whether that Nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

This is more of the kind of self-doubting "blame America" whinging we've come to expect from Ol' Stovetop. I guess he doesn't realize that 73 years (or 87!) already counts as "long."

We are met on a great battlefield of that war.

Tell us something we don't already know, genius.

We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who gave their lives that that Nation might live.

Hey, Abe, maybe we wouldn't be dedicating anything at all if you hadn't put that idiot Meade in charge. Come on, Lee is a bad guy, and we're not going to beat him unless we bring out our big guns. But I guess that wouldn't occur to a "compassionate" guy like you. That Marfan's disease must really be choking off your circulation.

It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

I think by now we all know the answer to this. Don't we?

Yep, that's what most of them sound like. Childish, petulant, ignorant, and willfully trying to miss the bigger point. Almost autistic in the certainty that their hyper-rationalism has dealt a devastating logical blow to their safely-out-of-sight opponent.

Folks, there's a reason you don't see "real" pundits do this kind of thing in the New York Times, and it's not because of liberal media bias. It's because it's stupid. Knock it off.

UPDATE: A commenter at Eschaton points out that "the Gettsburg address was sort of proto-fisked at the time." According to the Chicago Times, "The cheek of every American must tingle with shame as he reads the silly, flat,and dishwatery utterances of the man who has to be pointed out to intelligent foriegners as President of the United States"