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Obama Recalls “Tragic Burdens” of Tribal Groups on Columbus Day (Happy Holiday Everyone!)
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| By Todd Starnes
Posted on 10/08/2012 1:56:28 PM PDT by drewh
President Obama marked Columbus Day by issuing a proclamation that reflects on the tragic burdens tribal communities bore in the years that followed the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus.
When the explorers laid anchor in the Bahamas, they met indigenous peoples who had inhabited the Western hemisphere for millennia, Obama wrote. As we reflect on the tragic burdens tribal communities bore in the years that followed, let us commemorate the many contributions they have made to the American experience, and let us continue to strengthen the ties that bind us today.
He called on Americans to recall the courage of Columbus, while celebrating our heritage as a people born of many histories and traditions.
Following is the complete proclamation of what President Obama called that fateful October day in 1492.
Following is the complete proclamation of what President Obama called that fateful October day in 1492.
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COLUMBUS DAY, 2012
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
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The chosen one just can't seem to do anything right now...
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posted on
10/08/2012 1:56:34 PM PDT
by
drewh
To: drewh
Is he talking about the Cleveland baseball team?
To: drewh
The hate and racism just keeps spewing forth...a pathetic and miserable individual.
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posted on
10/08/2012 1:59:03 PM PDT
by
EagleUSA
To: drewh
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posted on
10/08/2012 2:00:28 PM PDT
by
Berlin_Freeper
(Obama at the UN: The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.)
To: Darteaus94025
O has gotta kow tow to the Al Sharpton crowd or he’ll be accused of ‘not being black enough’ like Stacy Dash.
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posted on
10/08/2012 2:01:25 PM PDT
by
drewh
To: drewh
The alleged man knows nothing of Columbus, why he came, and what happened when he was here.
I am surprised that obama didn't celebrate the fact that the indigenous people sent back to Europe syphilis, which took five hundred years to defeat.
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posted on
10/08/2012 2:05:01 PM PDT
by
svcw
(Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
To: drewh
I know there's an answer, but why do we pay our federal, state and local governments to take take the so-called “bank” holidays off when most of us don't get those days off?
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posted on
10/08/2012 2:05:42 PM PDT
by
Dixie Yooper
(Ephesians 6:11)
To: drewh
Barack Obama is simply incapable of saying anything pro-American. This kind of backhanded slap at the discoverer of America shows Obama's real feelings toward our country and they are not pleasant, to be kind about it.
If that is who voters really want in the Oval Office, which I seriously doubt, our nation is pretty much finished.
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posted on
10/08/2012 2:05:54 PM PDT
by
Jim Scott
(Obama must be defeated)
To: drewh
Well, since he can’t about his 3.8 year miserable record, he dig up crap from 520 years ago.
Yeah, that will get you the Italian American Catholic vote.
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posted on
10/08/2012 2:07:35 PM PDT
by
Fledermaus
(Democrats are dangerous and evil. Republicans are just useful idiots.)
To: drewh
My mother(GOD rest her soul)had a saying;”You Don’t Know SH*T From ShinOla”;Mr. Obama,I think she was referring to you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To: drewh
The Post-Colonial speaks again.
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posted on
10/08/2012 2:08:31 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(June 28th, 2012, the Day America Jumped The Shark.)
To: drewh
S***-for-brains just can't bring himself to say "Happy Columbus Day."
To lefties like him, it's one of those holidays created by people who like America.
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posted on
10/08/2012 2:09:38 PM PDT
by
AAABEST
(Et lux in tenebris lucet: et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt)
To: Jim Scott
Barack Obama is simply incapable of saying anything pro-American. This kind of backhanded slap at the discoverer of America shows Obama's real feelings toward our country and they are not pleasant, to be kind about it. If that is who voters really want in the Oval Office, which I seriously doubt, our nation is pretty much finished.
+1, although I don't share your serious doubt about what voters want. When so many people are suckling at the teat in so many different ways . . . .
To: drewh
Is this real or is this from the Onion or that satire site?
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posted on
10/08/2012 2:10:51 PM PDT
by
MrDem
(Founder: Democrats for Cheney/Palin 2012)
To: EagleUSA
Another Apology Tour
Washington Redskins, Cleveland Indians, Atlanta Braves, Kansas City Chiefs, Chicago Blackhawks, Golden State Warriors,
Chief Osceola, Florida State University Seminoles
San Diego State Aztec Warrior
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posted on
10/08/2012 2:11:04 PM PDT
by
stocksthatgoup
(ZERO DARK THIRTY (coming soon to an embassy near you))
To: drewh
That's why a bunch of tribes joined with Cortes to overthrow the Aztec power structure in Mexico. The idea that America before Europeans was some paradise is nonsense. Native tribes killed, brutalized and enslaved each other way before Columbus came.
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posted on
10/08/2012 2:11:54 PM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: drewh
The Carib Indians were cannibals who raised the children of their enemies as livestock.
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posted on
10/08/2012 2:11:58 PM PDT
by
Kansas58
To: AAABEST
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posted on
10/08/2012 2:12:09 PM PDT
by
freebird5850
(Guilty but not prosecuted? Sounds like a liberal to me.)
To: drewh
The Carib Indians were cannibals who raised the children of their enemies as livestock.
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posted on
10/08/2012 2:12:09 PM PDT
by
Kansas58
To: drewh
Those tribal burdens were coming, sooner or later, no matter who or what.
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