McDermott omits 'God' from Pledge

Washington Times ^ | 4/28/04 | Amy Fagan

[jennyp]

I am shocked. Shocked, I tell you! Shocked and appalled. Shocked and appalled, and appalled and shocked. Shockingly appalled. Appallingly shocked. Shockingly shocked! Appallingly appalled!

[Mo1]

When asked about yesterday's Pledge incident, Mr. McDermott's spokesman, Mike DeCesare, said his boss "hesitated, unsure of what he should do because the words 'under God' are under court review."

LIAR .. McDermott knew he would get a reaction and that is why he did it

[thegreatbeast]

McDermott is simply a pig who no longer deserves to live under the protective umbrella of our country. If wishes only had wings....

[longtermmemmory]

Even if the USSC makes the mistake of removing "under God" from schools, there is NO EXCUSE for removing "under God" from adult recitations.

Remeber when the USSC convenes, part of the Oyez Oyez includes "may God have mercy upon this honorable court".

McDermont is just having trouble because he is trying to put himself as equal in importants to the almighty.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Oh, why bother with the pledge at all. Even "One nation, indivisible" is a mockery with the way the US is getting more and more balkanized.

OK, before you all jump on me, this is exaggeration for effect.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Remeber when the USSC convenes, part of the Oyez Oyez includes "may God have mercy upon this honorable court".

God has surely had tons of mercy upon the Court. That is obvious -- if God had judged it, it would have been struck by lightning and burned to the ground long ago.

[Rocky]

"Washington Democrat"

Please, Washington, stop sending these liberal idiots to D.C.

[BulletBobCo]

Please, Washington, stop sending these liberal idiots to D.C.

Liberal Idiots

Isn't that redundant? :)

[Rocky]

"Liberal Idiots

Isn't that redundant?"

Good point. I shouldn't waste bandwidth like that.

[Old Landmarks]

As for me, I think the pledge sounds just fine either way.

This is not about sound, it is about meaning. McDermott means to ram his left-wing secularisist revisionism down America's throat.

The pledge was legally revised to reflect a certain viewpoint that most Americans still hold. If McDermott and all liberals want the pledge changed they have our permission to get as many far-left-wing nuts elected to legally revise the pledge.

Some people like the 'sound' of the pledge just fine exactly like it is. The old one is just that, the old one. We chose to 'replace' the old one, on purpose, intentionally, for a reason. Otherwise we would not have changed it to say exactly what it says, 'Under God'.

If McDermott or anyone else has a problem with it, they can let someone else lead and they can sit there with their bottom lip stuck out.

[Old Landmarks]

Yeah, it's pretty funny there's so much controversy over a pledge written by a socialist and which didn't have "under God" in it for 50 years, till Congress tacked it on.

I know what you mean, there is such an uproar of the American people demanding that Congress remove 'under god' from the pledge, uh, No! There's NOT. The only uproar is being made by a few fruit cakes from the far left who want to revise the all law including the Constitution to follow the ACLU.

...Congress sure did make the majority of the American people mad when they 'updated the pledge' to include 'under god,...uh, no, in fact the large majority of Americans agreed with Congress which has every right to make law.

I know what you mean about uproar though. I still remember how badly the American people begged Congress to remove traditional, voluntary, teacher-led, prayer in schools. And how Congress finally followed the will of the American people and overturned a 150+ year old understanding. Uh, NO! They didn't. Removing prayer was a judge-made law that followed no precedent and was simply revisionism.

Old habits are indeed hard to break, I bet some teachers that had following their old habit of leading school prayer, just like Americans had done since the 1600s, had a hard time pretending to agree with that wedge.

[hellinahandcart]

Bwahaha! Looks like "Lenin" has crotch rot.

[RightOnline]

McDermott is one, big horse's ass. There is absolutely zip for excuse for such despicable, childish behavior. If he doesn't like what this country stands for, tell him to get the hell out.

And for Heaven's sake, Washington State, would you people WAKE UP and fire this moron next election, once and for all?????

[OXENinFLA]

Recitation of the Pledge is listed in the official House rules as the third action in the daily order of business.

So goes the DEMTHINK that rules don't apply to them!

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[OXENinFLA]

Why was that statue commissioned???

[JLAGRAYFOX]

He's a Democrat and Traitor! What did you expect!

[OXENinFLA]

This is being dissussed on LAURA INGRAHAM right now.

FYI

[BigSkyFreeper]

And when the USSC convenes, they convene under the Ten Commandments up on the wall behind them.

[BigSkyFreeper]

The ACLU wants to take Christ out of Christmas, God out of the pledge, and make immorality the social norm in this country. They want to take 200+ years of faith, values, and tradition and flush it down the sewer, and ram their perverted nonsense down our throats.

[AlexW]

"Why is it on moral issues the libertarians always seem to be right in there with the atheists, queers, anti-American traitors, Democrats, Communists, and McDermotts of this world."

What I notice about many libertarians on here is that they
are quite contentious and seem to have a bur up their pompous ass.