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Obama Doesn‘t Mention God In Thanksgiving Address To Nation – With Video



Nov 24, 2011 47 Comments ›› Pat Dollard

Fox News Radio’s Todd Starnes:

President Obama did not include any reference to God during his weekly address titled, “On Thanksgiving, Grateful for the Men and Women Who Defend Our Country.”

His remarks were void of any religious references although Thanksgiving is a holiday traditionally steeped in giving thanks and praise to God.

The president said his family was “reflecting on how truly lucky we truly are.”

For many Americans, though, Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on how blessed and thankful they are.

Sherman Frederick in the Las Vegas Review-Journal:

In what I think almost all Americans would call “odd,” President Barack Obama delivered his weekly address with a speech entitled: “On Thanksgiving, Grateful for the Men and Women Who Defend Our Country.”

In the text of his speech, he referred to Thanksgiving as a “celebration of community.”

Holy cow! Is that one screwed up view or what?


  • http://twitter.com/TerenceSmelser Terry Smelser

    not unexpected, the S.O.B.
    is irrelevant anyway, fuck him

  • Hawkerdriver

    May all the curses he so richly deserves fall upon his head soon.

  • http://patdollard.com USMC3112

    The son of a bitch of a muuuuuuuuuuslim would have NO PROBLEM MENTIONING GOD if this were a muuuuuuuuuuuuuuslim holiday! FUCK YOU JACKASS!

  • Anonymous

    The important thing is to be thankful. In our family we all mention what we are thankful for and silently thank whomever we believe is responsible. As a group we have many different religions. Thankfulness is universal.

    • Anonymous

      Half-right half-wit.
      Thankfulness is universal, but the important thing is to acknowledge the prime source of all things, and the bounty of creation.  You can bastardize the true meaning of Thanksgiving any way your twisted liberal dementia takes you and the flies you call family.  That is the beauty of freedom.  You should thank God that He has placed you in a Country where you can freely be the idiot that you are.

    • Anonymous

      You are very fortunate that you can believe in god or God. Not all of us can.

    • Anonymous

      It is not that you can’t, it is that you won’t.

    • Anonymous

      I’m sorry, but I tried very hard to retain the belief I had. With some people it grew to be bigger. I was not able to grow the belief. I’ve been able to do a lot of things, but that wasn’t one of them. You are fortunate.

    • Anonymous

      It has nothing to do with fortune and everything to do with Grace.  It is clear you have chosen to reject God, not He you.

    • Anonymous

      I have not rejected God. I am an agnostic, so how could I?

    • Anonymous

      I have not rejected God. I am an agnostic, so how could I?

    • Anonymous

      I have not rejected God. I am an agnostic, so how could I?

    • Anonymous

      Then why would you support, as you state above, replacing God with ‘Thankfulness’ alone?  Is ‘Thankfulness’ sufficient to explain the existence of all things known and unknown?

    • Anonymous

      An agnostic does not have an explanation. The feeling of thankfulness is an emotion, not an explanation. The definition of “agnostic” that I am using is, “Someone who doesn’t know.” In this case an agnostic does not know if there is a god or not, so it is not a rejection of god or null.

    • Anonymous

      “Someone who doesn’t know” or an elementary appeal to emotion is not a sufficient basis upon which to claim or support the contention that those who have a personal relationship with God cannot have the benefit of religious symbols meaningful to them.

    • Anonymous

      You are right, but I don’t want those symbols imposed on me.

    • Anonymous

      The fact that you find the symbol of the cross an “imposition” does not warrant the removal of the cross from a house of worship under the U.S.Constitution.  Perhaps you would find the Soviet Union a bit more to your liking.

    • Anonymous

      The discussion was about government property.

    • Anonymous

      I don’t mean to refute your final point, but this argument was on the issue of a Godless Thanksgiving speech by our Godless usurper.  And your fagnostic claim that God and Christian symbols don’t matter.
      But hey, you lost the other argument too.

    • Anonymous

      The fact that you find the symbol of the cross an “imposition” does not warrant the removal of the cross from a house of worship under the U.S.Constitution.  Perhaps you would find the Soviet Union a bit more to your liking.

    • Anonymous

      “Someone who doesn’t know” or an elementary appeal to emotion is not a sufficient basis upon which to claim or support the contention that those who have a personal relationship with God cannot have the benefit of religious symbols meaningful to them.

    • Anonymous

      I have not rejected God. I am an agnostic, so how could I?

    • Anonymous

      I have not rejected God. I am an agnostic, so how could I?

    • Anonymous

      I’m sorry, but I tried very hard to retain the belief I had. With some people it grew to be bigger. I was not able to grow the belief. I’ve been able to do a lot of things, but that wasn’t one of them. You are fortunate.

  • Time4discernment

    Watch this vlogger’s special edit of the address for an insight into how many Americans of faith were left feeling by the President’s remarks:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xof1zmcSJaY

  • Swifty

    I am thankful I am not an unfeeling Marxist atheist who hates Christians.

    • Anonymous

      So am I.

    • Anonymous

      So am I.

    • Anonymous

      So am I.

    • Anonymous

      So am I.

  • http://patdollard.com USMC3112

    Ok, since he won’t metion God On Thanksgiving, Let us review President Washington’s General and President George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1789. So inspiring to read. Think how much better America’s status as a Nation would be if we return to his proclimation.
      
    A) Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me “to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.”
    B) Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be;
    c) that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war;
    d) for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted;
    e) for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.
    f) And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations, and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually;
    g) to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed;
    h) to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness to us), and to bless them with good governments, peace, and concord;
    i) to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us; and, generally, to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.
    J) Given under my hand, at the city of New York, the third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine.

  • Voice of reason

    Sandra are you mad I just checked this site out and it is a mad house! No I mean literally insane.

    • Anonymous

      But they don’t ban the opposition. Some are just misguided :-)

    • Anonymous

      Yes, some who visit are misguided, but you’re right, we don’t ban you for your ignorance.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_L5UA5IEYFK3XFFTMEVHDAKXQFM Bob Bayer

    Obama is a godless crook … prison may not await him but hell does..

    • Voice of reason

      What a wonderful world view you have. Such a special person.

    • Voice of reason

      What a wonderful world view you have. Such a special person.

  • Anonymous

    There was a good Thanksgiving op-ed yesterday in the Washington Times.  There were two points.  The first was that Lincoln issued his Thanksgiving proclamation in the midst of the Civil War; we should give thanks in times of trouble.  The second was that the Lincoln proclamation (as did George Washington’s proclamations) called upon people to give thanks to God — yes, to God.

    Obama is simply out of step with the real America.  

    • Anonymous

      See the proclamation.  He mentions God there.

    • Anonymous

      See the proclamation.  He mentions God there.

    • Anonymous

      See the proclamation.  He mentions God there.

  • Cmments

    George W Bush made no mention of God during his 2008 Thanksgiving address.
    http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2008/11/20081126-11.html

    I don’t recall Fox News or other commentators having any problem when Bush gave his 2008 Thanksgiving address.

    • Tbeaty

      That’s because it was the one and only time Bush didn’t mention God out of 9 addresses where he did. Right after that address he said he and his family were going to church to give their thanks to God…Maybe you should get your facts straight before posting half truths? 

    • Goingglocal

      Um, except that the same could be said of Obama. He did mention God in his address last year, as well as in his written Thanksgiving proclamation this year. This was one time he didn’t, just as 2008 was the one time Bush didn’t. Tbeaty does have the facts straight actually, and nobody was bothered the one time Bush didn’t mention God…whether he went to church afterward has nothing to do with it.

    • Tbeaty

      That’s because it was the one and only time Bush didn’t mention God out of 9 addresses where he did. Right after that address he said he and his family were going to church to give their thanks to God…Maybe you should get your facts straight before posting half truths? 

  • labman57

    Republicans expect their elected officials to include sanctimonious religious proclamations in their public addresses. Perhaps Obama should have announced that God spoke to him and suggested that he pardon the turkeys as a gesture of Christian compassion.

  • labman57

    Republicans expect their elected officials to include sanctimonious religious proclamations in their public addresses. Perhaps Obama should have announced that God spoke to him and suggested that he pardon the turkeys as a gesture of Christian compassion.