A bit of misplaced, yet righteous outrage

By Doug Hagin and Cross-Posted at TheDaley Gator

From the fine folks at Weasel Zippers who, by aiming for the easy to pick low hanging fruit, miss the real issue with Obama’s ideology.

Oops He Did It Again: For Second Time, Obama Omits “Creator” When Speaking of “Inalienable Rights” Cited in Declaration of Independence…

Now, the real problem im the Obamassiah’s statement is not his “omission” of the word Creator. Here first read his statement.

Just seven days after he sparked controversy by omitting the word “Creator” when he closely paraphrased the passage from the Declaration of Independence that says all men “are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights,” President Barack Obama again omitted the Creator when speaking about the “inalienable rights” that “everybody is endowed with.” This time the president was speaking at a Sept. 22 fundraiser for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City, and his reference to “inalienable rights” was not as close a paraphrasing of the Declaration as it had been the week before.

“And what was sustaining us was that sense that, that North Star, that sense that, you know what, if we stay true to our values, 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, everybody a ladder into the middle class, every child able to go as far as their dreams will take them–if we stay true to that, then we’re going to be able to maintain the energy and the focus, the fight, the gumption to get stuff done,” Obama said at the DCCC/DSCC event, according to the transcript posted by the White House.

To me, he says we are “Created” so the fishing for hidden meanings in the fact that he does not say “Creator” as well misses the larger issue. Focus on this quote.

 if we stay true to our values, 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, everybody a ladder into the middle class,

Yep, see, his version of our national ideal is that the GOVERNMENT is going to GIVE opportunity, and somehow ensure EVERYONE has a place in the MIDDLE CLASS. Sorry Barry, but the Founders spoke of freedoms like the PURSUIT of happiness, not any guarantee of happiness, and certainly no government “ladders” into any certain class. Their ideal was more along the lines of keeping the government out-of-the-way. Once again, Obama’ vision, and that of his entire party, of America is out of touch with the men who founded America.

Barry Soetoro, International Man of Mystery

This piece on how Barack Obama is a CIA creation reads, to me, like a hundred others I’ve seen about a hundred other people over the years.  The technique is always the same.  They used it on Lee Oswald:  Oswald was at Atsugi, Japan at the same time as the U-2!  Oswald knew David Ferrie!  Oswald’s love of communism from his teen years onward, defection to the Soviet Union, admiration for Fidel and oft-expressed contempt for the United States were all just cover for his CIA work!

While there are some interesting tidbits in the linked article, I’m not buying Obama as CIA.  What it reminds me of is what I (and you, and many others) have been wondering for a long time.  Exactly Who is This Guy?

“In Defining Obama, Misperceptions Stick” says the NY Times.  Forget the birthplace issue.  Just 46 percent of Democrats say Obama is a Christian.  This despite the fact that he says he is one, and has given “six speeches either from a church pulpit or addressing religion in public life.”

The strange thing is, Barack Obama wrote a 480-page autobiography that I read back in the spring of 2008, and afterwords I still didn’t know very much about him, except for his years-long struggle to define his identity, culminating in a conscious decision to be an American Black.  That is what the book is about.  The years between high school and Chicago paint the broad strokes of rising racial and political consciousness without ever divulging the kind of details one normally expects in such a work.  The real names of friends, lovers, influences, addresses, quotes, dates are all in short supply.  Maybe this is just the “new autobiography” where, y’know, the actual “facts” of one’s life are secondary to the “story.”  It read to me like a book by a future politician, smoothing over the rough spots, skipping the awkward fact that a number of associates were radicals of various stripes, painting Jeremiah Wright as an inspiring Christian preacher who happened to wryly comment on American history from time to time.

I don’t think the President is some kind of CIA plant, a Muslim or an alien from another galaxy.  But for the first time in American history we have a President that we have never seen the inside of, never seen whatever core of bedrock, unalterable, unshakable values he would be willing to kill or die for.  We wonder if he has any.  It’s something we deserved to know before he took office.  Perhaps the best we can do now is minimize the effects of the Hollow Man and try to hold on with minimal damage until 2012.

NeoVictorian