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April eleven, 2011
Vol. 016, No. 29

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At a Democratic fundraiser on Monday night time,Microsoft Office 2007, President Obama once again misquoted the Declaration of Independence’s most famous sentence and once more omitted its reference to our “Creator.” According to the text of his remarks published on the official White House website, he said: “[W]hat makes this place [America] 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,Windows 7 X86, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that each of us are endowed with certain inalienable rights,Office Standard, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.’”
The first time that something happens and is met with publicity and criticism,Office Standard 2007, it could well be an accident or part of the learning curve — like the first time one bows down to foreign royalty when other U.S. presidents haven’t; or the first time one issues a public apology abroad for past (real or imagined) American sins in a way that other presidents haven’t. But the second time, the assumption must be that it’s probably deliberate — and that makes it all the more appalling. Other presidents didn’t deliberately misquote the Declaration, and they didn’t leave out (or rewrite) the words about our rights being endowed by our Creator.
The first time President Obama misquoted the Declaration in this way,Microsoft Office 2007 Standard, when addressing the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute a month ago, I wrote: