Posted on 09/20/2010 2:17:49 PM PDT by kristinn
Congratulations are due to Freeper BigBobber for the impact he has had with his post to Free Republic on Friday evening about Barack Obama omitting our rights come from our Creator when he recited part of the preamble to the Declaration of Independence in a speech to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus last week.
BigBobber, who has been a Freeper since the Sore Loserman days of November 2000, shows how Freepers are still impacting the national political debate even as Free Republic marks its 14th anniversary on the Web this month.
Since BigBobber posted his report at 8:40 p.m. EDT Friday night, news of Obama's omission has made its way all through the blogosphere, starting with our friends at Weasel Zippers and culminating today with it leading the first hour of both Rush Limbaugh's and Sean Hannity's radio shows.
Rush noted that Obama accurately quotes the preamble in one of his books, so it's not like the phrase is unkown to him.
In his post, BigBobber quoted Obama and commented:
So let me close by saying this. Long before America was even an idea, this land of plenty was home to many peoples. To British and French, to Dutch and Spanish, to Mexican -- (applause) -- to countless Indian tribes. We all shared the same land. We didn’t always get along. But over the centuries, what eventually bound us together -- what made us all Americans -- was not a matter of blood, it wasn’t a matter of birth. It was faith and fidelity to the shared values that we all hold so dear. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, endowed with certain inalienable rights: life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
This is one of the closing paragraphs of President Obama's speech to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus on September 15, 2010. Caught a clip of this on the radio and I was amazed when he left out "by their Creator" when quoting from the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence.
Here it is in the official White House transcript and you can also see it on YouTube
I'm surprised this has not created a stir - perhaps lost in the election results new the last few nights.
For reference, here is the actual first sentence of the Preamble:
"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."
...BTW, on the YouTube video the time mark is 22:30.
He says it very slowly and deliberately - does not look like he mis-spoke.
A search of Google Blogs shows a couple blogs noted Obama's omission of the Creator on the day he gave the speech, but there was no pick up from them that day, the next day and no mention of the omission on Friday until BigBobber did his thing Friday night.
The White House press corps, as usual, had its head so far up Obama's TelePrompter it did not report Obama's omitting the Creator from the Declaration's preamble, leaving it once again to a Freeper to report the news.
Woo hoo!
Excellent! Well done, BigBobber!
You might want to add this.
GB just told about the dedication of S Alinsky’s book rules for radicals.
Ole Saul dedicated it to LUCIFER.
Not only that but the NEA has put it on the RECOMENDED READING list for teachers and students.
I think this one is frivolous and embarassing.
Thanks, BigBobber!
The look on Obama’s face as the words scrolled up is one of disgust. The amount of eyeblinking he did underscored the revulsion he seemed to be dealing with.
What sort of man cannot bear to read “endowed by his Creator?” What sort of person has feelings that intense, negative feelings, for the concept of God?
Obama hates God.
Free Republic is the greatest!
Right on FRiend!
Ya hit one outta tha paaaark!
Hispanics have to be about the most homogenously Catholic voting group in this country.
Anyone who thinks he'd dis God in front of them isn't paying attention.
Tempest>Teapot.
Of course he left it out. All you have to do is look at his base and who he is courting for votes to understand why. I guarantee had he left it in it would be the DUmmies and HUffies upset about invoking a creator, who do you think he wants to upset any more right now?
Laura Ingraham also spoke of it.
Exactly.
The publishing house for the UN, UNICEF, Green Peace and other such groups is the Lucis Trust, which used to be called Lucifer Publishing.
The DREAM Act vote that Reid has scheduled is as 2:15 on September 21st. The Autumnal equinox is an occult holiday.
Obama believes our rights come from the government.
Way to go Big Bobber!
Did you see the video?
This year’s lock on the prestigious Buckhead Award.
bttt
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