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Tuesday 5 October 2010

It seems that Barack Obama doesn't 'do God' either

Further to my piece of 21 September pointing out that in a recent speech Barack Obama decided to drop 'the Creator' from the American Declaration of Independence
'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.'

Now I read at WND that he has done it again:
'CNS News reported Sept. 22 when Obama, speaking to a fundraiser for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, did it again.

"If we stay true to our values," the president said, "if we believe that all people are created equal and everybody is endowed with certain inalienable rights and we're going to make those words live, and we're going to give everybody opportunity, everybody a ladder into the middle class, every child able to go as far as their dreams will take them – if we stay true to that, then we're going to be able to maintain the energy and the focus, the fight, the gumption to get stuff done."
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WND believes that these are not accidental incodents but part of a deliberate policy:
'Now comes word from Robert George, the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton, writing in the August/September edition of First Things, which is run by the Institute on Religion and Public Life, a nonpartisan research and education institute designed to "advance a religiously informed public philosophy."

He wrote of attending a conference where the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy was distributing copies of a pamphlet with the Declaration of Independence, the Gettysburg Address and the Constitution.

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He described how, since he had memorized the Gettysburg address in school, he started reciting it, then stumbled on the final paragraph, so he opened the booklet and read: "It is rather for us, the living, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that, from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the last full measure of devotion – that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth."

Wrote George, "Deeply moving – but…"

"Did you notice what had been omitted? What's missing is Lincoln's description of the United States as a nation under God. What Lincoln actually said at Gettysburg was: 'That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom."

He noted the "progressive" group, which has featured speakers including Al Gore, Joe Biden, Ted Kennedy, Barney Frank, Jesse Jackson, John Edwards, Gary Hart, Janet Reno and Eric Holder, must have found Lincoln's quotation "a little inconvenient."'


Interesting?

1 comment:

Grant said...

For these third rate nonentities to edit a great man's speech is sacrilege.
One of the great speeches in history and one of the shortest. The only photo I have seem is of Lincoln sitting down at the end of the speech. The photographer had only just got his camera set up !