Obama Leaves Out "God" & "Life" in Thanksgiving Proclamation
Politico posted a story November 25 entitled, "Obama goes basic in Thanksgiving proclamation."
The story intrigued me because daughter Daena worked as a writer, of proclamations in part, for President Bush during the last 18 months of his 2nd term. Coincidentally, Daena wrote Bush's last Thanksgiving proc in 2008.
Politico noted...
A president's 1st Thanksgiving Day proclamation is an opportunity for the commander in chief to highlight his new administration's accomplishments or reassure the nation at a time of gratitude and family togetherness.
But President Obama's Turkey Day bulletin Monday went in a different direction.
Obama's declaration is short - just over 400 words - and gives no specific examples of things that Americans should rejoice in or recover from, despite his eventful first year in office....
So I compared President Bush's last and President Obama's 1st and found the Obama writer pretty much followed Daena's template, with the exception of excluding personal acknowledgment of Who to be thankful to, according to Bush's proclamation:
On this day, let us all give thanks to God who blessed our Nation's first days and who blesses us today. May He continue to guide and watch over our families and our country always.
Obama's only mention of God was in a quote by George Washington.
There were notable deviations between the 2. For instance, President Bush called the 1st celebrants "Pilgrims," Obama said they were "European settlers."
And Daena made sure President Bush's proclamation was chock full of thanksgiving for Life:
We recognize that all of these blessings, and life itself, come not from the hand of man but from Almighty God....
Having arrived in the New World, these early settlers gave thanks to the Author of Life....
Today, as we look back on the beginnings of our democracy, Americans recall that we live in a land of many blessings where every person has the right to live, work, and worship in freedom....
Of course, Obama's pro-death team scrubbed all that.

Barry Barak Hussein Soetoro Obama has consistently shown himself to be a liberal elitist who looks down on "ordinary" Americans. Asked while campaigning for the Pennsylvania primary to explain why small-town Democrats did not support him, Obama replied "it's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." When Obama made this remark he was alluding to small-town people who had experienced long periods of joblessness. In response to predictable outrage when his remarks were unexpectedly publicized, Obama did not recant his statement but instead replied, I "didn't say it as well as I should have."
From Sunday's 07 Sept. 2008 11:48:04 EST, Televised "Meet the Press" THE THEN Senator Obama was asked about his stance on the American Flag. General Bill Ginn' USAF (ret.) asked Barry Barak Hussen Obama to explain WHY he doesn't follow protocol when the National Anthem is played. The General stated to Obama that according to the United States Code, Title 36, Chapter 10, Sec. 171...During rendition of the national anthem, when the flag is displayed, all present (except those in uniform) are expected to stand at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart. Or, at the very least, "Stand and Face It". 'Senator' Obama replied: "As I've said about the flag pin, I don't want to be perceived as taking sides". "There are a lot of people in the world to whom the American flag is a symbol of oppression.." "The anthem itself conveys a war-like message. You know, the bombs bursting in air and all that sort of thing."
Next, slip of the tongue or momentary confusion? In a television interview discussing his religion, Sen. Barack Obama stated, "My Muslim faith." Obama, speaking to ABC's George Stephanopoulos on "This Week," was talking about what he described as "smears" that were claiming he was a Muslim when he maintains he is a practicing Christian. "Let's not play games," Obama stated. "What I was suggesting – you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith. And you're absolutely right that that has not come." Stephanopoulos immediately interrupted Obama, stating, "Christian faith." "My Christian faith," Obama quickly said. "Well, what I'm saying is that he (McCain) hasn't suggested that I'm a Muslim. And I think that his campaign's upper echelons have not, either. What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith – something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time." The statements came amid an exchange in which Obama accused Republicans of spreading "lies" that he is a Muslim. McCain, though, has strongly condemned such accusations. "These guys love to throw a rock and hide their hand," Obama said. But Stephanopoulos corrected the Illinois senator, stating, "The McCain campaign has never suggested you have Muslim connections." Obama replied: "I don't think that when you look at what is being promulgated on Fox News, let's say, and Republican commentators who are closely allied to these folks." "But John McCain said that's wrong," Stephanopoulos shot back.
He didn't do it on purpose, right?
I loved it when Barry Barak Hussein Obama took an afternoon relaxing drive to go see Billy and Franklin Graham. Of course it was just coincidence that just days before the Pentagon disinvited Franklin from speaking at the National Day of Prayer observance at the Pentagon because Franklin had said Islam was evil. On Islam, Graham stood by his past remarks when he was asked by Campbell Brown if Islam is an "evil religion." Graham responded: "Well, Campbell, if you take just the way they treat women, I have a real problem with Islam - I do. The way they treat women - it is horrid. It is not a peaceful religion that President Bush and President Barry Hussein Obama tried to tell the American people it is - it is not that at all." Franklin Graham said he and Barry Hussein spoke briefly about the Pentagon spat, with the younger Graham saying that activists with an agenda were trying to pull all religion out of the military. "I wanted to make him aware of that," Franklin Graham said. "He said he would look into it." Franklin Graham's mesaage is exactly why Barack Barry Hussen Obama visited the Grahams.
Barry will do anything for votes.
Jill Stanek believes everything is about her religion and her stance on abortion .
*yawn*
This guy always has his wet finger in the air. He's no leader.
Signed by Washington on October 3, 1789 and entitled "General Thanksgiving," the decree appointed the day "to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God."
A more reasonable comparison would be Obama to Clinton after each found themselves dealing with a recession handed to them by the last Bush in office.
No doubt Obama would be praising every god in Southern California if he'd been handed the kind of budget surplus Clinton turned over to the Shrub.
What else would you like to blame on Bush? Maybe the housing diaster started by Carter and promoted by Clinton?
Better hurry, time is running REAL short on that excuse for irresonsible overindulgance.