Sad. Lawmakers Forced to Correct Obama on National Motto After He Screwed it Up In Asian Speech
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, December 7, 2010, 12:03 PM
A group of conservative lawmakers were forced to send President Obama a letter yesterday after he messed up the national motto during a speech in Indonesia.
Obama told an Indonesian audience that the national motto was E pluribus unum – “Out of many, one.”
It’s not. They national motto is “In God We Trust.”
One News Now reported, via Free Republic:
A letter signed by 42 members of Congress criticizes President Barack Obama for telling students in Indonesia last month that America’s national motto is “E Pluribus Unum.”
Obama commented to the students last month that the U.S. and Indonesia share a similar history. “It is a story written into our national mottos. In the United States, our motto is ‘E Pluribus Unum’ — out of many, one.”
In a letter to the White House, members of the Congressional Prayer Caucus — mostly Republican — note that the national motto has been “In God We Trust” since 1956.
In God We Trust became the official motto of the United States in 1956. The change was motivated in part by a desire to differentiate between communism, which promotes Atheism, and Western capitalistic democracies, which were at least nominally Christian.
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Ellen Herner commented:
wow…
Granny commented:
HAHAHA – TheWon isn’t going to like that! He can’t even recite “endowed by their Creator” – now he has to admit to In God We Trust? How much you want to bet he’ll try to change the national motto back?
StandUp4Chuck commented:
I really would like to believe this is outright ignorance by an affirmative action community organizer but I fear its not. Deliberate and cunning, just like a commie.
If anyone wants a good read about this plegue called socialism, I recommend you read “The Law” by Frederick Bastiat. You will be astounded by the parallels of 1848 France and what we are witnessing today.
Here is a link, take the time to read it.
http://www.constitution.org/law/bastiat.htm
Espresso Logic - The 6th Sense commented:
Ovomit is an Oz Hull.
Paul_In_Houston commented:
Understandable mistake.
Remember; HE is the ONE.
Andreas K. commented:
Smartest president ever… right? Right? Right?
ohio commented:
Ba-rack’s a lumberjack and he’s okay…
bg commented:
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haven’t heard form Obama or GP re:
Extra! Extra! How Did Journalists Cover Pearl Harbor The Day After?
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kansas commented:
Close enough for government work.
bg commented:
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link fixed re: #8
Extra! Extra! How Did Journalists
Cover Pearl Harbor The Day After?
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bigL commented:
Pobama was sworn in by C.J. Roberts a 2nd time–this time with no Holy Bible.
Are we ever going to be rid of Obama et ux? Or will they just continue to ignore elections on into the future? Is this the 35 yr reign of Somoza?
scituate_tgr commented:
bg: FYI – thanks for posting the link to 1984 the other day. I’d never seen it start to finish / tgr
Simon commented:
Courses NOT taken at Harvard/Columbia/Accidental: L-
Ginger commented:
Oh-bow-mah!
Henry Hawkins commented:
I’m surprised Obama didn’t cite as our national motto, “Never waste a good crisis.”
Henry Hawkins commented:
Or, “If you like your motto you can keep your motto.”
Ginger commented:
“But let me be clear: as citizen and President” …. I can do and say what I want…”I Won”
Ginger commented:
Signed;
Soebarkah
NorthernX commented:
Wow. The MSN are going to have a field day with this!
Oh, wait…
S. Wolf commented:
He knows Kenya and Indonesia and the Muslim world much better than he knows America.
Chisum commented:
Henry Hawkins,
Both good suggestions. Send them to BO. He needs all the help he can get.
Ginger commented:
Being American is not a matter of blood or birth…..
Just ask the Cowards at the Supreme Court they are protecting my butt.
Ginger commented:
Any one watching the fraud? I can’t hear him but his face sure is getting worse with those spots on his face. What is the he!! is it?
Chisum commented:
I’m watching and listening.
All I can say is I hope MeMeShelle fattens his lip…again!
Ginger commented:
He’s got his purple lips again..
Ginger commented:
I will be back…I have to wipe the spit of the screeen of my tv.
Tom commented:
In “Allah we trust.” he would have remembered.
Thunder on the Right commented:
E Pluribus Unum is part of the Great Seal, but was never codified in law as our national motto, though many thought of it as our de-facto motto until 1956 when In God We Trust was named as the National Motto.
Prior to 1956, there was NO OFFICIAL motto.
E Pluribus Unum is no more our national motto than Novus Ordo Seclorum or Annuit Coeptis, (which also appear on the Great Seal) are.
VOTE commented:
SURE HOPE YOU ALL ARE REGISTERED VOTERS………….. AS SICKENING AS THIS MAN IS…. BLOGGING ABOUT IT WON’T CHANGE IT, VOTING WILL.
Or, exactly how do we impeach the idiot!
A Conservative Teacher commented:
As a teacher, I can’t help but feel responsible for this. The educational establishment of our nation let Obama down during the times he was in it and not studying in foreign countries. Somehow this guy rose to be President of the United States not knowing our national motto, not knowing the Declaration of Independence (he drops out ‘by our creator’), and not knowing how many states are in the union (he said 57). I apologize for all educators of our great nation that we have failed so poorly in teaching our youth.
Rock commented:
Other changes in the wind thanks to dear leader.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the Socialism, and to the obedience for which it demands, one nation under control, divided, with no liberty or justice for the working class.
Rosemary Woodhouse commented:
#19 December 7, 2010 at 1:28 pm
NorthernX commented:
Wow. The MSN are going to have a field day with this!
Oh, wait…
Exactly!
squeaky commented:
he thinks so much of himself he sees no need to conform to office. he expects the office to conform to him…..he has the class and manners of a community organizer.
Rock commented:
@ A Conservative Teacher commented: #30
As a teacher, I can’t help but feel responsible for this.
Any reference to a god worshiped by Christians is not something he is comfortable saying.
57 State not a mistake due to our education system, but a Freudian one based on his early schooling by those who worship Islam.
Lets not forget the controversy at GeorgeTown University in 2009.
As President of the United States your handlers do not allow such mistakes to pop up to bite you repeatedly. A gifted speaker prone to the same faith based mistakes, I do not think so.
MIKE191 commented:
History. I dont need no stinking history, Iam President44.
drjohn commented:
I dunno, Jim. Maybe he changed the official US motto on his own without telling us. He’s always been squeamish about God and Creators and such.
Stoshio commented:
The question is are his supporters now realizing that this president isn’t very smart? It’s one bungle after another. He can’t govern. He can’t lead. He can’t inspire. And his extreme ego and narcissism won’t allow him to admit it. He continually blames someone else for his fumbles. Or tells the populace that they aren’t smart enough to know what he intended to accomplish. He is a Marxist, whether he realizes it or not.
Elly commented:
Easy – he just leaves out what he doesn’t like. Says so much about his “faith choice” doesn’t it.
Here’s a man that’s been spoon fed all his years… of course those feeding him (Soros and company, aren’t so happy with changing his nappies).
Don’t be surprised by anything this chameleon does. In order for him to be useful to Soros he has to be liked. Hence caving on the tax cuts and rumoured changing of positions on coal, etc..
It’s hard to get re-elected by people that hate your guts.
bg commented:
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OT..
24 Hours Before DREAM Act Vote – How are the Votes Stacking Up?
oh yeah, he’s so dumb no one can stop him..
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Militant Conservative commented:
Once again showing what a poor tactician and leader he is. Off the top of my head I did not know but that is what staff and speach writers are for. Only an arrogant narcissist would go it alone and wing it. What a disgracefull affirmative action president we have. Truely the weakest president since Carter. Good luck lefties in trying to make him out to be JFK. JFK would not be tollerated by the current Democrat party. Your socialists and that is all there is too it. Even heard the MSM try to blunt this lable today. “See he’s cutting taxes he can’t be a socialist”. Sure he is just a shifty black socialist. powder is dry
ogee commented:
The secondary motto should be “Capitalism is about abundance and life. Socialism is about rationing and death. That’s the bottom line.”
The one he quoted is from the ‘Masons’ which is on the dollar bill. He’s lying or he really doesn’t know. THIS IS PROOF HE WAS NOT BORN OR BRED HERE. Too many indicators show he is not an natural born American.