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Obama makes mistake about the Declaration of Independence

Obama makes mistake about the Declaration of Independence

This seems like a fairly obvious mistake and one would have hoped that a speech writer would have picked this up.  The full speech is available from the White House website:
all in defense of those God-given rights that were first put to paper 236 years ago: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. . . .
Of course, Thomas Jefferson didn't think that this was the first time that these ideas were "put to paper."  The Declaration 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."


CNS News notes:

"This was the object of the Declaration of Independence," Jefferson wrote in a letter to Henry Lee on May 8, 1825. "Not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of, not merely to say things which had never been said before; but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take.
"Neither aiming at originality of principle or sentiment, nor yet copied from any particular and previous writing, it was intended to be an expression of the American mind, and to give to that expression the proper tone and spirit called for by the occasion," Jefferson told Lee. "All its authority rests then on the harmonizing sentiments of the day, whether expressed in conversation, in letters, printed essays, or in the elementary books of public right, as Aristotle, Cicero, Locke, Sidney, &c."
Obama backing away from newest claim that today's jobs report is a "step in the right direction"

Obama backing away from newest claim that today's jobs report is a "step in the right direction"

Remember Obama's statement last month: “The private sector is doing fine. Where we're seeing weaknesses in our economy have to do with state and local government."  Obama never really backed away from that comment.  After today's unemployment numbers, Obama claimed the jobs report is a "step in the right direction."

But at a stop Friday afternoon in Pittsburgh, his last on a two-day bus tour through Ohio and Pennsylvania, Obama dropped the line -- stressing instead the work that remains.
"We have been fighting back," Obama said. "But what we all understand is that we've got so much more to do. Too many of our friends and family members and neighbors are still out of work. Too many folks still are seeing their home property values under water."  . . .
The connection in both statements is that the private economy in Obama's mind is really doing fine. 


So should the tag for this post be to classify Obama's statements as misstatements (not really) or dishonest (probably).
Yet another Obama misstatement

Yet another Obama misstatement


Again, I personally don't care about these things, but since Democrats make such a big deal about the slightest misstatements by Republicans, I have decided to keep track of them.

Newest Fox News Op-ed: Two mistakes in Obama's press conference last week

My newest Fox News piece starts this way:

“The private sector is doing fine. Where we're seeing weaknesses in our economy have to do with state and local government,” President Obama claimed on Friday. His solution to fix the public sector was more government spending.
When people started screaming, Obama clarified his remarks and said “It’s absolutely clear economy is not doing fine,” but he just couldn’t bring himself to disown his statement about the private sector generally doing “fine.” His clarification still asserted that there is “good momentum in the private sector.” But private sector employment growth has fallen in each of the last four months, reaching a pitiful 82,000 in May.
President Obama is also wrong about his other claim that state and local governments are doing poorly relative to the private sector. . . .
Yet another Obama misstatement: Obama talks about 'Polish death camp'

Yet another Obama misstatement: Obama talks about 'Polish death camp'

Obama makes one misstatement after another and where are the media stories about the constant misstatements?  From the Associated Press:

The White House said President Barack Obama misspoke on Tuesday when he referred to a "Polish death camp" while honoring a Polish war hero. 
The president's remark had drawn immediate complaints from Poles who said Obama should have called it a "German death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland," to distinguish the perpetrators from the location. Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski called it a matter of "ignorance and incompetence." . . . .
Another Obama gaffe: ‘My Sons"

Another Obama gaffe: ‘My Sons"

Let me be quite clear, I don't care about the gaffes that someone makes.  Everyone misspeaks, but since the media so focuses on Republican gaffes and view it as a sign of low intelligence, I have been collecting a few of Obama's gaffes.  Here is another one:

In two campaign speeches over the last two days, President Barack Obama has twice mistakenly mentioned “my sons” when defending his administration’s regulation requiring virtually all health-care plans in the United States to provide women, without any fees or co-pay, with sterilizations and all Food and Drug Administration-approved contraceptives, including those that can cause abortions.
Obama, of course, has two daughters--10-year-old Sasha and 13-year-old Malia--but no sons. . . .
"New gaffe: Obama confuses Jews with janitors"

"New gaffe: Obama confuses Jews with janitors"

"Jews" and "janitors" are something that most people get confused all the time, right? Well, I personally don't put a lot of weight in misstatements, but the media is all over them when a Republican makes them. In addition, in this case, Obama corrected the mistake right away. Still, this is something that would get attention if a Republican said it. Andrew Malcolm is on the case here.
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