well well
SNIP:
See if you can find the words "
endowed by their creator" in this clip, Obama's speech Wednesday night to the Hispanic caucus skips right over it. (Notice the long pause)
YouTube - Pr.Obama - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal' - CHCI
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OBAMA: "We all shared the same land. We didn’t always get along. But over the centuries, what eventually bound us together, what made us all Americans, was not a matter of blood, it wasn’t a matter of birth. It was faith and fidelity to the shared values that we all hold so dear. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, endowed with certain inalienable rights: life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
read the rest here.
HotAirPundit: Obama's Speech to the Hispanic Caucus Gala Leaves out the word "Creator" When He Quotes the Preamble (Video)
Thanks for spotlighting the most significant difference between traditionalists, including the Founders, and progressives, and many of our citizens 'educated' in government schools.
The abridgement was no accident, but rather the corruption of American political thought, beginning in the early 19th century, and known as 'progressivism.' Our President subscribes to this view.
1. "The rights which [an individual] possesses are...conferred upon him, not by his Creator, but rather by the society to which he belongs. What they are is to be determined by the legislative authority in view of the needs of that society.
Social expediency, rather than natural right, is thus to determine the sphere of individual freedom of action.”
The Claremont Institute - Leaving the Constitution
2. Wilson: “No doubt a lot of nonsense has been talked about the inalienable rights of the individual, and a great deal that was mere vague sentiment and pleasing speculation has been put forward as fundamental principle.”
Woodrow Wilson: ‘Men are as clay in the hands of a consummate leader.?
3. Roosevelt, in his “New Nationalism” speech " ...maintains that every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it.” New Nationalism Speech by Theodore Roosevelt
Based on this view, there are no Creator-endowed inalienable rights.
One can see, of course, that one view values the individual, while the other, the collective.
Nothing has changed, only been enhanced with more control over the collective.
OMG! We are being assimilated into the collective!
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I take it you are a product of govenment schools, and never bothered to obtain a library card.
Otherwise, the resonance with earlier Progressives would have struck, even you, as ironic.
1. . “While we are followers of Jefferson, there is one principle of Jefferson’s which no longer can obtain in the practical politics of America….Jefferson said that the best government is that which does as little governing as possible…But that time is passed.
America is not now and cannot in the future be a place for unrestricted individual enterprise.” RJ Pestritto, “Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism,” p.255
2. Herbert Croly, the intellectual link between Wilson and FDR, and founding editor of ‘The New Republic,’ wrote ‘The Promise of American Life,’ :
The remedy for ‘chaotic individualism of our political and economic organization’ was a ‘regeneration’ led by a heroic-saint who could
overthrow the tired doctrines of liberal democracy in favor of a restored and heroic nation. Herbert Croly, “The Promise of American Life,”p.14
3. The American elites, including much of FDR’s ‘Brain Trust’ made the pilgrimage to Moscow and spoke glowingly of the Soviet experiment. The economist and originator of the expression ‘New Deal,’ explained how, in the Soviet Union the all-caring state “was informed by battalions of statistics” and led by Communist Party officials who need “no further incentive than
the burning zeal to create a new heaven and a new earth which flames in the breast of every good Communist.” Lewis S. Feuer, “American Travelers in the Soviet Union, 1917-1932” American Quarterly 14, no. 2, pt. 1, Summer 1962.
4. Charles Beard, historian whose radical re-evaluation of the founding fathers of the United States, who he believed were more motivated by economics than by philosophical principles, was
enamored by MussoliniÂ’s corporatism, which used the force of the state to unify capitalists and laborers.
5. At its core, fascism is the view that
every element of society must work together in spiritual union toward the same goals at the behest of the state. One can see it defined in Mussolini's own summary of the Fascist philosophy: "Tutto nello Stato, niente al di fuori dello Stato, nulla contro lo Stato" (
Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State)
MODERN LEFTISM AS RECYCLED FASCISM
(emphasis mine throughout)
So, my easily-led friend, you statement had the wrong final word; it should be individual rather than collective:
"Nothing has changed, only been enhanced with more control over the [individual]."
This, due to Progressives, and the'Easily-Led-Battalion.'
Fight on: chains become you.
