Free Republic Scoop on Obama Declaration Omission Leads Rush and Hannity Shows Today

Monday, September 20, 2010 | Kristinn

[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

YouTube video of speech

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.

[agere_contra]

Plus - Obama only went to church to hear a Muslim speaker preach a socialist message.

[LibLieSlayer]

I know that you did... I just needed to say it again before I went crazy. That pos muslim makes my skin crawl... I cannot stand the sound of his voice. I want him retired to the streets of chitown or maybe see him move to cuba. That is where he belongs!

LLS

[normy]

I agree although I figure he’ll skip town with the stimulus cash and set up a dictatorship in Kenya.

[nikos1121]

SOmeone, Ann C?, said that Obama is an atheist. It makes sense.

I watched the clip. He pauses....for a long time....then continues....He made a decision to go off script....No doubt.

I think it was also shown on Brier’s show at 6 Eastern.

[nikos1121]

SOmeone, Ann C?, said that Obama is an atheist. It makes sense.

I watched the clip. He pauses....for a long time....then continues....He made a decision to go off script....No doubt.

I think it was also shown on Brier’s FOX show at 6 Eastern.

[left that other site]

Amen.

[VRWCmember]

I think this one is frivolous and embarassing.

I disagree. These unalienable rights are endowed by God, not just allowed by government. That distinction is not frivolous, but it is either lost on Obama - or more likely rejected by Obama.

[jla]

Rush thought it was done on purpose as a tweak to see who would get all stirred up about it.

If so, the White House is now Ridgemont High.

"leavin' out 'Creator', how cool is THAT, dude?!"

[HonestConservative]

puleese.

[don-o]

I checked out the American Thinker piece before I posted to make sure FR had indeed led the way. FR was first.

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Indeed. And now AT has acknowledged that fact.

*We have just been informed that Free Republic beat us to the story here, so we cannot claim to be first.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/09/totus_it_wasnt_me.html

[kristinn]

Cool. Thanks!

[longtermmemmory]

btw cnbc keeps running the obama quote saying “21st century will be the american century again”. Whose century is it now? When did Obama decide the 21st century is not the American century? CNBC keeps running this quote during their post Obama faux town hall commercials.