POTUS Cites Wrong Founding Document

Modern Conservative ^ | January 28, 2010 | Gina L. Diorio

[history_48]

One would hope the President of the United States would know the difference between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. But in last night's State of the Union Address, President Obama said:

We find unity in our incredible diversity, drawing on the promise enshrined in our Constitution: the notion that we are all created equal….

Um, wrong founding document, Mr. President. It is in our Declaration of Independence that we read:

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.

As a Facebook friend of mine quipped, "So, does he blame the speechwriter or Bush?"

 

[Plutarch]

You'd think that the President of the Harvard Law Review, and a Constitutional scholar on the Univ. of Chicago Law faculty would have picked up on this as it scrolled down the Teleprompter. But no.

[onyx]

Are you certain, Onyx, that BO didn’t write it?

Wouldn't he have demanded credit for writing it?

LOL.

[LibLieSlayer]

I have said since 2004 that hussein was dumber than a box of hammers... but tonight I have determined that he is ignorant, racist, islamist, and just plain ****ing stupid... I mean he has to have instructions read to him on how to pee, to keep from ruining his shoes.

LLS

[paulycy]

He wanted to look it up but he didn't have his copies anymore.

[Enchante]

my dear dad came to the USA (legally) in his 20s many decades ago..... he knows more of US history, founding principles and documents, and real American values than this Obamanation will ever know.....

my dad also knows what it’s like as a boy to wake up one morning to Nazi bombers overhead, with one’s country being overwhelmed by Hitler’s invading armies, and he cherishes the USA, its principles and opportunities, like no pampered Obamanation ever will.....

that’s one of the strangest and most inaccurate aspects of all the race/gender/class fanatics like Obambi nowadays — they think they have it so rough and are so oppressed or are speaking for people so oppressed in the eviiiilll USA...... few of them (unless they are older than Obami or have really endured some of the worst govts and movements in the world) have any real first-hand experience of the worst aspects of human life -— yet every politically correct academic struts and preens and imagines being God’s gift to humanity

[freekitty]

Does it ever. Mr. Stupid jaws again and again and again.

[Ronin]

It gets more pathetic with every single day...

[mtnjimmi]

Is his law degree as phony as his birth certificate? I didn't know Harvard law degrees were for sale

[SWAMPSNIPER]

They don’t have a damned clue! They weren’t educated, they were indoctrinated. He can probably recite the communist manifesto in his sleep!

[Gene Eric]

>> Easy for a speech-writer to make a mistake when referring to a document he’s never read.

Apparently, same goes for the speech-reader.

[PalmettoMason]

Dan Quayle was a bright bulb. But he was conservative and needed to be destroyed.

That REALLY NEEDED to be said. Thanks for saying it.

[sportscaster]

Libs must hate the facts:The kid ain’t that bright.

All hat and no cattle.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

The DoI is more of a statement and a set of principles. Even if some want to consider it the actual Constitution it’s still technically a separate document. I agree it could be considered an honest mistake although when the speech is written ahead of time it’s less excusable. It makes him sound stupid, as if he needed any help.

[LibLieSlayer]

Quayle is actually quite bright... hussein is devious, cunning, uneducated and just plain stupid.

LLS

[colorado tanker]

So much for the cock and bull story Barry is a constitutional scholar.

[MaxMax]

Well I guess that shoots that claim that he’s a Constitutional scholar.

Actually, since he's in the process of rewriting the document
we can't expect him to remember it.

[hawgwalker]

Seems like I remember Rush being mocked for this very same error by the left

[DJ MacWoW]

Quayle was a good guy and got a beating in the press. He saw it happening and couldn't stop it. It would not have worked if there had been an internet.

Did you realize that Chris Matthews was one of those that destroyed Quayle?

[chris_bdba]

For being built up as a constitutional law professor he sure screws things like this up a lot?

[DJ MacWoW]

Totus can’t keep track of everything. ;-)