Obama Omitted “Endowed By Their Creator” From his Speech (Video)
When President Obama spoke to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute on September 15, he recited well-known words from the Declaration of Independence to describe what makes America unique and strong. He did so without identifying where the words came from or that he was even referring to something famous. But there was little need to, since the words in question should be recognized by any schoolchild who has even a rudimentary knowledge of American history.And yet, many of those who did recognize the famous words were surely familiar enough with them to also recognize that the President left out a key part of what he was quoting.
These are the words the President recited from the Declaration of Independence in his speech to the Hispanic Caucus:
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.
This is how the relevant part of the Declaration actually reads:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Of course, the key phrase that is missing from the President’s version is “endowed by their Creator.” And this phrase is missing not just from the President’s remarks as actually spoken at the Hispanic Caucus but also from the written transcript at whitehouse.gov.
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Some people might try to claim that this was an unintentional ommission, and that the words just slipped his mind. Give me a break…..obama can’t recite the ABC’s without a teleprompter. He’s the only president we’ve had to visit 57 states during their campaign, (with two left to go). The words “endowed by their Creator” were there on the screen, obama just couldn’t or wouldn’t allow himself to say that God was his Creator. If he could have sail endowed by allah there would not have been an hesitation or omission.