While delivering a speech at a fundraiser for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in Rockville, Maryland, on October 18, President Obama omitted the “Creator” from the Declaration of Independence for the third time.
During Monday’s speech, the President spoke of the “essence” of the upcoming midterm elections:
As wonderful as the land is here in the United States, as much as we have been blessed by the bounty of this magnificent continent that stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific, what makes this place special is not something physical. It has to do with this idea that was started by 13 colonies that decided to throw off the yoke of an empire, and said, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that each of us are endowed with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
The Blaze reports, “The sole mention of man’s Creator in Obama’s remarks came at the end when he thanked the audience and said, ‘God bless you.’ ”
In a speech given by President Obama on September 15 before the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, he also omitted the religious reference:
We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal … endowed with certain unalienable rights, life and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
The American Catholic reported, “After President Obama says ‘created equal…,’ there is a long pause during which he scowls and blinks several times.”
The American Catholic concluded, “President Obama, if our Creator is not the purveyor of our human rights, then who is? The government?”
The President faced a great deal of criticism following his omission of the Creator on September 15, but the White House dismissed the criticism, asserting that Obama was merely “off script and adlibbed when he made that mistake.”
Conservative radio show host Rush Limbaugh remarked: “This is not an insignificant thing, and the reason it’s not insignificant is because [of] all of these questions about who Obama is, who really shaped him, where are his values sourced to, who educated and informed this man? This is not a miscue. It’s things like this that lead people to question his faith.”
According to the American Thinker, “Once could be a mistake, but twice is a pattern. Acknowledging that our rights come from a power higher than government or himself seems to rankle this man who claims the power to halt the rise of the seas.”
However, Monday’s omission marks the third time the President has left the Creator out of the endowment of unalienable rights. Seven days after the September 15 speech, the President paraphrased the same passage from the Declaration of Independence, though less closely, to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in New York City, and once again omitted the Creator:
If we believe that all people are created equal and everybody is endowed with certain unalienable rights and we’re going to make those words live…then we’re going to be able to maintain the energy and the focus…to get stuff done.
When questioned on Monday’s omission, reporters were confronted by the same elusiveness we have seen before. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs responded, “I can assure you the president believes in the Declaration of Independence.”
Word Press asserts, “The President interprets the meaning behind the Declaration as one that grants the government the authority to dole out ‘opportunity.’ ”
Photo: President Barack Obama talks with Amy Chyao, who attends Williams High School in Plano, Texas, as he tours the science projects on display, in the State Dining Room of the White House on Oct. 18, 2010.
