Obama vs. The Creator
Revolutionary News Flash!!
Dateline: Monticello, Virginia, October 22, 2010: Thomas Jefferson has stopped rolling in his grave because President Barack Obama has finally restored the word “Creator” into the Declaration of Independence.
Our self-proclaimed “Christian” president, when quoting the Declaration of Independence at a campaign rally on Friday, October 22, in Los Angeles, finally (after three unsuccessful attempts) got up the courage to insert the word “Creator” — as in “…endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
That is what the Founding Fathers would have called “manning up,” which now prompts three 21st century revolutionary questions:
- Why did President Obama finally program the word “Creator” into this teleprompter the fourth time around?
- Why did he omit the word “Creator” in the first place?
- Does any of this matter?
Before these questions can be answered we need to establish the factual record.
Wednesday, September 15: Congressional Hispanic Caucus Gala, Washington, D.C.
President Obama, when quoting the Declaration, omits “Creator” for the first time:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, endowed with certain inalienable rights: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Here’s the White House video and transcript.
After the September 15 speech, Fox News reported the White House said that “President Obama went off script and ad libbed when he made that mistake.”
Wednesday, September 22: Democratic Congressional Committee Speech in New York
President Obama omitted the word “Creator” when loosely quoting the Declaration:
…if we believe that all people are created equal and everybody is endowed with certain inalienable rights and we’re going to make those words live, and we’re going to give everybody opportunity … .
Here’s the White House transcript of the speech.
Monday, October 18: Democratic Congressional Committee Speech in Maryland
Once again President Obama omits the word “Creator” when quoting:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that each of us are endowed with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Here is the official White House speech with the glaring omission.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, when asked why the president did not use the words “endowed by their Creator” in his Monday speech, told reporters: “I can assure you the president believes in the Declaration of Independence.”
Obviously what was first reported as “a mistake” on September 20 was deliberate after the third omission of the word “Creator” on October 18. Surely President Obama, who taught constitutional law, understands that “inalienable rights endowed from their Creator” as stated in the Declaration of Independence was so revolutionary a concept that the history of mankind remains forever changed, and he knows the word “Creator” is the key component of that concept.
So now that you are up to speed on the historic showdown of Obama vs. The Creator let’s try to answer the questions posed at the beginning:
Why did President Obama finally program the word “Creator” into his teleprompter?
Since there has been no official explanation from the White House, I would like to speculate.
- When it was brought to the president’s attention that the White House switchboards were jammed with thousands of complaints about the omission, Obama was strongly advised that dissing the Creator, the Founding Fathers, and Glenn Beck listeners, all at the same time, was the triple threat of doom to his presidency.
- Obama decided that since he is a Christian he had better acknowledge the Creator since he plans on asking for some help from the Creator on November 2.
- Obama “went off script and ad libbed” when he restored the word “Creator” on October 22, thus making another mistake. So watch for the “Creator” word game to start up again when Obama quotes the Declaration non-stop during the 2012 campaign season.
Why did he omit the word “Creator” in the first place?
Again no official explanation other than Robert Gibbs saying on October 19: “The president believes in the Declaration of Independence.” (Which we all find comforting.)
So I would like to offer some plausible explanations:
- Obama knew the Creator was busy blow-torching the glaciers and would not notice.
- For Obama to say the word “Creator” means acknowledging there is a Being greater than he. Some of his critics think this is the root cause of the omissions. After all, this is the man who said upon his nomination in June 2008 that he was certain this was the moment the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal. Obviously there is an intense rivalry going on here.
- Political correctness: for if Obama states that our rights are “endowed by the Creator” he offends those who believe our rights are only endowed by the government.
- Obama was concerned the ACLU would file a lawsuit if he uttered the word “Creator.” After all, there was that pesky issue of church and state. On Monday, October 18, after Obama omitted “Creator” from his speech for the third time, and the White House reporters were asking about the omission, Obama was concerned the wing nuts might cause a ruckus. So he asked his attorney general to check on this “Creator” business with the ACLU. Sure enough, the ACLU told Eric Holder that it was illegal, or at least in bad taste, for Obama to read the Declaration with that offensive “Creator” word. However, since Jefferson wrote it before the ACLU was established, and because there were way too many copies floating around, they would give Obama a pass in exchange for an ultra liberal Supreme Court justice pick next time around.
Which explains why three days later, on Friday, October 22, Obama restored that problematic “Creator” word to the Declaration.
Why does any of this matter?
My 5th grade history teacher taught us that up until the writing of the Declaration of Independence the rights of citizens were granted by the king. But our Founding Fathers declared that our rights as citizens of this new nation were granted to us from our Creator and that was a totally revolutionary concept. After recalling my 5th grade history, I find it truly astonishing that our president can omit that revolutionary Creator concept three times and then restore it without any official explanation. Where are the Congressional hearings?
For without the word “Creator,” one has to ask Obama: From whom are these certain inalienable rights endowed? The government? A king? An emperor? Allah? Buddha? Aqua-Buddha? Congress? Democrats?
You can not have a receiver without a giver.
So according to our president our rights were endowed by a mystery benefactor on September 15, September 22, and October 18.
Then miraculously on October 22, the mystery was resolved when Obama restored that controversial “Creator” word to our founding document.
We can all rest easier knowing President Obama now acknowledges where our rights as citizens come from, so neither he nor the government he leads can ever take those rights away.
Update: As this article was going to print, it was reported that since Friday, October 22, Obama has quoted the Creator in the Declaration of Independence four times in four speeches.
Obviously our president thinks he needs a major intervention on November 2.
Update: It has been recently reported that since Friday, October 22nd, Obama has quoted the Creator in the Declaration of Independence 4 times in 4 speeches.
Obviously our President thinks he needs a major intervention on November 2nd.
Obama’s the same guy who, running for president, instead of standing at attention, right hand over the heart, during a flag ceremony and the playing of the “Star-Spangled Banner” as all the other candidates on the platform alongside him did, stood there at ease, arms at his side, hands clasped together in an open, deliberate sign of contempt, cupping his balls, remember?
Mr. Obama omitted the reference to the Creator because he does not believe that our rights are endowed by the Creator. He is an elitist who believes that government is the source of our rights and that we only have the rights that government dains to give us.
Unfortunately, I have taught history for a number of years and most college students I encounter believe that our rights come from government. I correct the dangerous misconception by taking them to the Declaration of Independence. Your 5th grade teacher did a fine job.
‘Lean Forward’ is omitting the Creator too, in their new rebranding campaign which also references the Declaration of Independence. What a coincidence!!
Brainwashing the masses.
~ The Infidel Alliance
Sorry, but Jesus is on our side. This I know. I know cuz He told me so. So suck it.
#4 ‘Your Sensei’ – why do you choose to be such a creep?
Jesus is on the side of no man or woman, or even political movement.
The issue is whether the man or woman or political movement in on the side of God.
Yo Senseless – would you care to inform us as to the source of rights? Mind you, amore than a few of us here are well-versed on that particular subject.
We await your next golden shower of whizdumb…
Sorry, Ward, you’ll have to ask Just Passing Through to help you with your water sports. Rights? We give them to ourselves, unless you claim to know the mind of God, in which case you have no fear of God, in which case you are doomed.
I hereby give myself the right to confiscate all of Yo Senseless’ property. Who is he to deny me the free exericse of my rights?
God wouldn’t like that. Trust me, I know how he thinks.
According to you God has nothing to do with our rights so what does it matter?
When man becomes his own god, he does whatever he thinks it it right to do.
Precisely. Not only do we do things we think are right to do. We do things we think are wrong to do. And God just doesn’t seem to care either way. He’s too busy giving 8 year olds leukemia.
Water sports? Now, Senseless, that would seem to be your obsession, as witness your incontinent leavings over the PJM venue. But I digress.
Our esteemed friend Kipling has done a nice job of handing you your snarky and uninformed ass on a plate with respect to the source of rights. Your responses – insults, non-sequiturs and babbling – are childish at best and demonstrate a compete lack of understanding of both the subject matter and its fundamentals.
Demonstrates further that you lack the price of admission to an adult discussion. But you have proven instructional although it’s not quite the way you intended. You’ve provided and continue to provide an excellent example of the Left’s primary flaws: infantile, anti-intellectualism and malignant narcissism.
So you see – you’re of some use after all. Clutch that precious fact your bosom for all it’s worth. Because it’s all you’ve got.
You’re upset that you inadvertently revealed your homo predilections. Allow me to remind you how it started . . .
“We await your next golden shower of whizdumb” . . . your words, not mine. As for Kipling, I left him scratching his head wondering why he “hadn’t thought of it like that before.”
Of course, you will admit neither, because you’re just. . . how do you describe it . . . a hate-filled jerk-off. Oh, your life would be so entertaining, and so much more evolved, if you just the slightest understanding of irony.
Actually the idea that our rights are not granted by the King or government was not new or unique to the Founders. They came directly from the Enlightenment in France and England. Whole phrases and concepts come directly from the great thinkers of the “old world.” Jefferson went out of his way to acknowledge that the Declaration was not new, or that the ideas were his, but that they were a compilation of the great concepts of the Enlightenment. About this there is no serious debate.
Your article, translated: SSSCCCCCRRREEEEEEEEECH!!! SSSQQQUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAK!!!
i.e. what a far right wing, bible thumping crock of crap.
The term “creator” is beside the point, completely.
The concept “inalienable rights” was infused into Jefferson et al via Locke (almost verbatim) who parroted concepts from the greco-roman tradition and rephrased. Read Locke, for crying out loud. The idea of “creator” even then wasn’t necessarily fungible with the christian god so much as shorthand for “we exist, and since we don’t know how, the term creator is just as good as any.” (Do you bible thumpers grasp anything of the enlightement at all?
Hence, this persistent claim(s) by the christian contingent that a) the US is a christian nation, and b) everyone in the US owes their freedom to them is utter nonsense.
That said, it sickens me to defend Obama. This shows how far down the rabbit hole the far right is, however — a mainstream, garden variety, moderate right winger like me (fiscal conservative, social libertarian) has more in common with moderates on the left than the far right’s screeching bible thumpers. At least moderate lefties are sane enough to discuss what actually matters: energy, jobs, and so on.
Go back to your useless JesusLand web site and cry to them regarding Obama’s purported “dissing” of you weak-kneed crybabies. Your schtick is boring, useless, and ought to not be part of any political discussions. Go away.
There is a lot of hate in your post for something you dismiss and find “boring.”
Regarding Locke, are you refereing to his “A Letter Concerning Toleration” in which he argues that a Christian society should not tolerate atheists in their midst? Just need some clarification on that one.
May God have mercy on your sick soul, Alston.
Let’s try to stay on topic, shall we? Would you care to enlighten us as to your concept of the source of the rights of Man? It’s a worthy question for any intellectually honest individual, as it speaks to the core of our values and our existence.
Or are you just a hate-filled jerkoff?
Yours is a remarkably ignorant comment espeecially for someone who feigns superiority over so called ‘bible thumpers’. The equality of all men is implied, and meant to be implied, by our common descent from Adam whose descendants spread over the globe to the races of mankind. And the deductions from this as to all being born with inalienable rights according to God entered the Western mind via the rise of Protestantism whose early leaders instituted the translation of the Bible into the various languages of Europe. One of the early political consequences of this was its use by Dutch protestants in their fight for freedom from Catholicism (as in Spain) and who talked in terms of a ‘New Jerusalem’ and identified themselves with the ancient Hebrews as did the Pilgrims who embarked from Holland to the New World. The Greeks had damn little to do with these ideas and Romans, nothing at all.
@ G.L. Alston – Stop with the “Bible” thumping accusations … totally inappropriate – the article doesn’t mention Christianity except when discussing the self described Barrack Hussein Obama … it discusses however, the omission of the term “Creator” which is exactly to the point … and Locke even would agree that the use of the term “Creator” is of any named religion.
That said this country, then and now (regardless of what Obama claims) is predominantly Christian.
Thank you for your comment. The point of this article was to only be the messenger regarding our president’s history of omitting and restoring “Creator” to the Declaration…. with commentary of course!
Article VII
The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same.
Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth. In Witness whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Names.
Notice “the year of our Lord”? They weren’t talking about Buddha
Stick to things you know about Alston. You’re showing your ignorance of both world history and religion.
I have been muddling for years about why people of no faith have such a mindless, vindictive, obsessive, ignorant, downright mean hatred for Christians. Is it self-hatred, jealousy, desire to appear a self-proclaimed (pseudo) intellectual because of poor self-esteem in high school, all of the above, or something nice people just can’t fathom? They can tolerate from any other person or religion any absolute atrocity such as the sight of human beings leaping from the buring Towers, but then spew forth mindless venom and hatred at the sight of a cross on a military grave or the grieving family of a fallen soldier having their last moment on Earth with their beloved child, spouse, or friend. I have endured this. God is your only comfort in the unbearable moment that is every (loving) humans’ worst nightmare. That is pure Evil, straight up. On a jury, I would have no guilty conscience to vote
justifiable homicide if a mother killed a hate monger at her child’s funeral. Maybe atheists and people so desperate to appear intellectual weren’t loved as a child and hate to see signs of any kind of love, including love of God.
We don’t hate Christians. We love Christians. We just hate the sin of Christianity.
But this great and honest man who neither needed nor wanted credit was a cornerstone of the 1st workable adaptation of such revolutionary concepts.
I would note that in his “I Have a Dream Speech” MLK omitted “Creator” as well.
For the record, I did not vote for Obama and believe him to be one of our worst Presidents.
You almost got that right. He’s THE worst because he’s the enemy within.
Much ado about nothing. As it stands today the New Americanized World State, formerly USA, is a de facto atheistic state which is antagonistic to traditional Chrisitian beliefs. The Americanized political elite believe that lying, cheating, adultery, violence are not wrong when used to further the goals of the central government. To pretend that our political leaders have any vestige of traditional Christian beliefs is an illusion. Just peer into modern American culture and you will see that nowhere is there any sign of theism. Hollywood and television is conducting a long fought war to smash any vestige of the former USA. America delenda est.
“For without the word ‘Creator,’ one has to ask Obama: From whom are these certain inalienable rights endowed? The government? A king? An emperor? Allah? Buddha? Aqua-Buddha? Congress? Democrats?”
As someone who doesn’t believe in God, I would say that we have these rights inherently by being human, and it is the responsibility of governments to respect the fact that we have them. I don’t know about any other atheists’ opinions on this, but if Obama said something similar I’d be OK with it. (It’s his opinions on nearly everything else that I’m not OK with.)
That said, I wouldn’t deliberately leave words out in a direct quote, and I think it’s stupid that Obama did. (IMO, the second one is less stupid than the first and third.)
Fair enough, but I don’t think any of those references purports to be a direct quote. If you inserted the ‘Creator’ phrase, they would all still be just a rough paraphrase. This whole pseudo-issue is petty and demeaning. There are far more substantive grounds for criticizing Obama. Focus, people.
I always thought the proper biblical comparison of Obama was to a king in the Old Testament, King Manasseh.
http://www.bluecollarphilosophy.com/2009/03/president-obama-and-king-manasseh.html
One should meet Obama’s claim to be a Christian with a high degree of skepticism.
I always thought of him as Saul
Jefferson most likely used the word because he he knew, like Lincoln, that evoking God was rhetorically effective as a default position. Neither of the two were “religious” worth a damn, (although probably at least as reliligious as the Founders God-brandishing Newt) but they knew their audience. Note that the Bible does not endow individuals with said rights, but rather the Founders asserted that the rights were there, and endowed by their Creator was a nice turn of phrase. The point made above by the atheist is right on.
When Obama bashes the rich, there is mindless clapping from the right. When Obama is bashed for not being religious, there is mindless clapping from the right. Carry on.
He probably thinks HE is the Creator.
Well then I must say that he is WRONG! All his policies name any of them are destructive at the least and catastrophic at worst ( which I believe is his intention )!
He is not a creator (unless you consider causing high unemployment, coming inflation, and stagnation a CREATION)!
No he is a DESTRUCTOR and must be stopped! This might happen in his next adventure when he travels abroad to India and meets an assassin while over there! He is going into a bad situation over there and has no clue the dangers that lurk there.
He has already PO’ed over half the country and now it seems that he is intent on doing the same all over the world! What a stupid and unqualified man we have put in his position.
I am glad I voted early to put the brakes on this imbecile and his horrid Marxist policies!
“When Obama bashes the rich, there is mindless clapping from the right.” er, make that left.
Although I’m certainly not a pro-Obama person, yet I think that the language of the American Constitution, when speaking of “inalienable rights” endowed upon them by the Creator, commits what is called a category mistake. From a philosophical as well from a theological viewpoint such a language is flawed.
Philosophically we cannot speak of human beings endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights, since speaking of “rights” has not any meaning apart from an already existing human legal framework. One should not draw the conclusion, however, that government is the only source of rights. Each sphere of life (State, Church, Family, Society) has its own sovereignty and cannot be reduced to a function of one of the others.
From a theological perspective it is clear from the outset that the language of the Constitution is flawed. The people of Israel received the divine law (the Torah) from the Creator of the Universe. Yet none of the so-called called “inalienable rights” of the American Constitution are found in it.
Philosophically speaking, perhaps, but philosophy begins and ends with man.
Scripture however does not begin and end with man. It begins and ends with God and God is the ultimate source of all legal systems – even those that reject and polute their true purpose.
Cain killed Abel and was condemned for it long before a man-made legal system held sway.
Paul speaks to government as sanctioned by God in Romans 13. Even Plato said that man-made forms reflected the pure aboslutes.
DaOne, as well as all New Agers believe in a religion where one accends from the primitive, to the spirital. To them, there is no G-d that one can have a personal relationship with, and morality is whatever feels good. Plus, humans are basicly good. DaOne can become his own god, he just has to accend. Just as Lucifer stated.
Check out these two cartoons with Obama
“Love versus Hate” at http://drawfortruth.wordpress.com/2010/10/27/love-vs-hate/
“Good versus Evil” at http://drawfortruth.wordpress.com/2010/05/01/good-v-evil/
Below are 2 quotations from George Washington that were in a tea party email I received today. These words give me chills. Too bad this wondrous experiment that was America has done the exact thing he couldn’t believe would ever happen.
“No People can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the Affairs of men more than the People of the United States. Every step, by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency.”
In Washington’s mind, the evidence of God’s central role in the creation of our nation was so overwhelming that he was convinced Americans would always credit God for the blessings we incur as citizens of this great land. Washington said:
No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to so plainly; I cannot believe it will ever come to pass.
“In Washington’s mind, the evidence of God’s central role in the creation of our nation was so overwhelming that he was convinced Americans would always credit God for the blessings we incur ….”
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Real Americans DO credit God for blessings.
I just had a strange thought: I hope this wondrous experiment that so inspired the world and led the way for so many years does not convince God that Man is hopeless, even if it takes a while for Evil to defeat Good in a rare case.
We have been indoctrinated to forget what a never-before, Christianity-in-action example we have set, which is very well-illustrated by our Berlin Air Lift. After we conquered Germany during WWII, instead of the “spoils of war” usual attitude, we air lifted them food/supplies. Meanwhile, Russia enacted the usual spoils of war attitude of atheists, took control, and began to starve the Germans. We have tried to “win hearts and minds” by Christian example and generosity for most of America’s existence, not just for oil control as the left has pretended.
(Author of Obama vs The Creator)
Thank you for many inspiring and thoughtful comments.
Pajamas Media readers give me hope for our nation’s future.
God Bless America and all of you who are fighting the Good Fight.
Peter denied Jesus three times before the cock crowed and Paul was busy persecuting Christians before Jesus knocked him off his ass to inquire: “why are you persecuting me?”. Peter and Paul both changed their ways, became saints and went about destroying the works of the devil. Suppose the self proclaimed messiah(Obama)just figured out he was a sinner like the rest of us after denying the Creator three times and not so righteous (as he views himself) after all? Maybe he too will become a saint. Does not the Lord have the power to convert?
Meanwhile the rest of us children of the Creator, brothers and sisters of Jesus will continue go forward and destroy all the works of devil including those accomplished by Obama. Don’t hold your breath on the sainthood of Obama but there is opportunity until the last day, the last hour, the last minute, even until the last second to believe in heart and confess with your mouth that Jesus Christ is your saviour and you shall be redeemed.
Excellent connection. Would that it would happen before Obama destroys our nation.