Posted on 10/09/2012 1:59:13 PM PDT by ColdOne
Below is the full text of President Obama’s proclamation for Columbus Day:
As dawn broke over the Atlantic on October 12, 1492, a perilous 10-week journey across an ocean gave way to encounters and events that would dramatically shape the course of history. Today, we recall the courage and the innovative spirit that carried Christopher Columbus and his crew from a Spanish port to North America, and we celebrate our heritage as a people born of many histories and traditions.
When the explorers laid anchor in the Bahamas, they met indigenous peoples who had inhabited the Western hemisphere for millennia. As we reflect on the tragic burdens tribal communities bore in the years that followed, let us commemorate the many contributions they have made to the American experience, and let us continue to strengthen the ties that bind us today.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Except Columbus landed in Hispanola not the Bahamas.
I know. This is real I just found it at whitehouse.gov
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/10/05/presidential-proclamation-columbus-day-2012
“When Barack the senior landed in Hawaii, he met indigenous peoples who had inhabited the Western hemisphere for millennia. As we reflect on the tragic burdens communities bore in the years that followed...”
Is this guy committing seppuku or is he getting fragged from the inside?
This is so insanely stupid right before an election it boggles the brain.
I’ve been saying it for a very long time and I’ll say it again - LANDSLIDE!!!!!!
The controversy of exactly where Columbus first landed is between Watlings Island and Samana Cay. His settlements were on Hspanola but it has no claim for the first landfall of his first voyage.
Rev. Arnett's was a long treatise, but in one segment, he recounted the Columbus story. Needless to say, his recounting of that story differs significantly from the slant put on it by the current President:
"The Continent Religious by the Right of Discovery.
"W.M. Ramsey, Esq., says in an address before the citizens of Cincinnati, Sept. 28th, 1869, that 'Columbus when he beheld the shores of the New World, called all hands about him, and offered solemn thanks and supplications, to Almighty God; and when he went on the land, he kneeling before High Heaven, dedicated it a second time to the Ruler of the Universe.'"The world was hunting for a passage to the East Indies, but God was sending them out to hunt a field in which the great problem of human government and universal soul and mind freedom could fright and conquer the enemies of man and foes to God. In this, as in many other cases, in the multifarious works of man, we find that there is a divinity that shapes our ends, let us rough hew them as we may. This was only a prelude to a grand succession of events, which have made this continent illustrious in the annals of history, and furnished a number of brilliant names for the galaxy of the temple of fame. But what was the moving force in the breast of the distinguished pioneers. By the way, Justin D. Fulton in his "Outlook of Freedom' page 30, says: 'It was on the third of August, 1492, a little before sunrise, that Christopher Columbus, undertaking the most memorable enterprise that human genius ever planned, set sail from Spain for the discovery of the Western World. On the 13th of October, about two hours before midnight, a light on the Island of San Salvador was discovered by Columbus, from the deck of his vessel, and America was, for the first time, beheld by European eyes. The admiral, on the following morning attended by his followers stepped upon the shore, and with tears of joy streaming down his cheeks, threw himself upon his knees, kissing the earth, and returned thanks to God. Arising, he drew his sword, planted the cross, displayed the royal standard, and as the banners of the enterprise were flung to the breeze, he took possession of the soil, and a connection that was to subsist forever, was established between Europe and America.' And he might have added, a connection between the purpose for which God intended was recognized here; first the banner of the cross, then that of Spain; God first and man next; God and Christ, then Ferdinand and Isabella.
"What kind of a Religion was meant by the Father, if any? I quote from another: 'Do you doubt that these men intended to found a Christian nation? Every syllable of colonial history attests it. They sought for themselves and their posterity civil and religious liberty; they knew that they were the necessary attendants of each other—that one could not exist without the other—but it was religious liberty that was uppermost in their minds; it was religious liberty of which they had been deprived in the land of their nativity; it was religious liberty of which they experienced the greater need."'
---(End of Excerpt)
That is the dopiest statement I have seen from him. Is he going after the “Native American” vote? I strongly dislike that term. These people were emigrants from Asia.
He just reads what someone puts in front of him, there is not a trace of talent in Obama!
Obama is not committing seppuku. He is speaking to his base and hoping that the tipping point has been reached and there are more of them than of us.
We have to remember that their schooling has been very, very different from ours.
Well, you know.. at the Dem convention they were going on about the muslims being the native americans...
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