Honey, I Shrank the Declaration

Obama omitted “by their Creator.” Apparently he thinks our rights come from the government. But what the government gives, it can as quickly take away. A “right” that is a gift of the government is not a right at all. It is merely a privilege, granted by officials at their whim, and as easily revoked. Was the omission of “by their Creator” intentional, in an effort to be politically correct? Was it an innocent mistake? Or was it a Freudian slip, like “corpse-man” for Navy corpsman? We can’t be sure. What we can know is that the key section of the Declaration of Independence is not embedded in the president’s mind, or in his heart.

Interesting to find out where Obama thinks our rights originate. His comments lamenting our Republic having only listed ‘negative liberties’ in the Constitution shows his prejudice. Quite alarming as he was a ‘professor’ of the Constitution, yet has no understanding of the document.

Government of limited powers is what we have precisely because the founders feared government. Individuals have God-given rights and voluntarily enter into governments to perform limited functions.

Obama’s view is that government has all the power. Government controls all capital and all rights of its citizenry. Government is the instrument of redistribution of wealth to make up for inequities and all faith is in government.

Obama leaving out “Creator” should not surprise anyone. These ‘rights’ exist not in relation to any God. They belong to the State and are granted to individuals at the whim of the State. The State, in exchange, offers to feed, house, jobs, etc. There’s, therefore, no limit to the power of the State to fulfill these ‘affirmative obligations.’

Obama’s view is parallel to the progressives under FDR’s desire to promise these rights and use the power of the State to assure they are given. The problem is: At what price? Historically State absolute power has lead to despotism.

What Obama sees as weakness in the Constitution actually reflects the genius of our Founders. They realized that men given power would seek to increase that power. Failed Republics in human history demonstrated this. The Constitution created ‘checks and balances’ to reduce the power of the State in relation to the governed.

Obama omitted “by their Creator.” Apparently he thinks our rights come from the government

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Obviously the gods in Washington and Zer0, the King of the Gods, are the purveyors of any and all rights for the filthy masses. /s

So we have the self-serving Obama who can now trim the Creator from our history and our legacy to suit his warped ideology.

A Christian would not omit the phrase. It's as simple as that!

That he can take it upon himself, right in our faces to alter a phrase that has existed in our founding documents for over 230+ years, tells you exactly who we have as our president.

VOTE THEM ALL OUT IN NOVEMBER.

Look out Zer0, the hope and change is a coming... and not from you.

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