by Joel Siegel of ABC News
Critics of President Obama felt little holiday cheer after the president did not thank God in his Thanksgiving-themed weekly Internet address. They immediately took to Twitter and the Internet to voice anger and disbelief.
"Holy cow! Is that one screwed up or what?" columnist Sherman Frederick of the Las Vegas Review-Journal wrote in a Thanksgiving-morning blog post, "Somebody ought to remind Obama (and his speechwriter) that when Americans sit down around a meal today and give thanks, they give thanks to God."
Over on the website of Fox News Radio, radio host Todd Starnes also took issue.
"His remarks were void of any religious references, although Thanksgiving is a holiday traditionally steeped in giving thanks and praise to God," Todd Starnes of Fox News Radio wrote.
"What a Turkey! Outrage as Obama Leaves God Out of His Thanksgiving Address." wrote the London Daily Mail on-line edition.
Ironically, the attacks on Obama came as the Republican White House hopefuls suspended their criticism of the president on Thursday in favor of a unified message of thanks to U.S. service members and their families.
To be fair: Three of the Republican presidential candidates – Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum all issued Thanksgiving statements that omitted any references to God. Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain and Rick Perry mentioned God in their statements.
So why all the anti-Obama backlash on his failure to mention God in a Thanksgiving Day tradition started over 350 years ago? I don't mind Obama failing to mention God,......to have him do so would be like paying a prostitute to tell you she loves you. If you click on the link to the full story above, you see almost 34,000 comments. If the last 30 or so are any measurement of the rest, most of the people commenting are supportive of Obama's speech seeing the criticism as "unfair" or "political in nature" or "akin to pole vaulting over mouse turds".
Those commentators must be among the 15% of the American population who believe that WWF wrestling is real or the 50% who voted for Obama in the first place....... BTW - Hows that Hope and Change working out for you?
The reason that some of us are agitated about Obama omitting God in a traditional Thanksgiving Day speech is because it is the latest example in a long line of anti-American, anti-Christian gestures, comments, speeches, regulations, court opinions and political direction of this Administration. It is not only just a consistent pattern but gives even the most critical thinker an insight into the Obama philosophy. And Yes, frankly I think he is a Muslim.....a closet Muslim, but a Muslim nonetheless. Why else would he hate this Country?
