During his fourth Thanksgiving presidential address, President Barack Obama referenced the recent, long and bruising campaign season, urged the country to unite behind his administration and, for the fourth year running, neglected to offer verbal thanks to God.

“As a nation, we’ve just emerged from a campaign season that was passionate, noisy, and vital to our democracy,” Obama said. “But it also required us to make choices �“ and sometimes those choices led us to focus on what sets us apart instead of what ties us together; on what candidate we support instead of what country we belong to.”

“Thanksgiving,” he continued, “is a chance to put it all in perspective �“ to remember that, despite our differences, we are, and always will be, Americans first and foremost.”

The president’s call to unite behind his administration follows a bitter election, in which his opponent, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, won independents 50 to 45 percent, and whites 59 to 39 percent.
The official proclamation is lower-profile than the address, and the neglect to verbally thank God — as the original celebrators of Thanksgiving convened to do — angered some conservatives.

“Yet again, President Obama’s Thanksgiving message eschewed any direct reference to thanking God, making this the fourth straight year in which the president of the United States has ignored the central message of the holiday in favor of political grandstanding,” the conservative Big Government reported. “This year, Obama’s central message was that now that he’s been re-elected, Americans should agree with all of his policies. His unity routine sounds strangely empty after a campaign in which he focused on dividing Americans.”

“Obama’s lack of overt religiosity has been a source of controversy,” the pro-life LifeSiteNews reported, “with polls consistently showing that a large number of Americans are unaware that Obama is a Christian, or doubt the claim.”

Actually even though I do not agree with his politics, I have no objection to the Pres not thanking an invisible and unproven deity. I think it's time people stop living in the past anyway.

alleoops, does not mentioning god lessen the importance of things to you? If so, why?

You guys gotta remember we are allowed to worship or not as we please. maybe the President doesn't believe in publicly affirming God every time he speaks or something. Who knows?

I think we're on our own

to bless our own lives and our own country.

I think that's a good thing really!

Appreciate our own freedom to pray.

There is a sort of people that Jesus had to intercede for...

Any if anyone should ever awaken from their wayward state of mind

this prayer is theirs to claim...


"Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them;
for they know not what they do.
And they parted his raiment, and cast lots."

Luk_23:34,


We should pray for the president for he knows not what he does.

Not only did he NOT mention God, he also didn't say anything about trains, drinkin', pickup trucks, momma or prison.

He sure don't know nothin' about country western songs.

Wow, what a pharisaic comment about President Obama.
Comparing him to the people who crucified Jesus is jumping the shark at best.

Everyone will read into that verse what they will.

Negative responses are predictable.

Blessed are those who receive it
according to the intended purpose.

In the verse that you quote, Jesus is praying on behalf of the people who were crucifying him. The verse in no way pertains to President Obama. So, why did you quote it?

So the President didnt invoke god in his thanksgiving speach, wow, how pertinant.

Means nothing more or less to me. I just posted the article as it was written. But, thanks for your concern anyways.

Right. Got it.

Indeed :-)

I grew up in a fundamentalist Christian home with a preacher for a father and I have never been under the impression that Thanksgiving was a religious holiday. Being thankful is something you do/are regardless of religion or spiritual beliefs. Or so I always thought.

I just want him to say more about these horses and bayonets which are now obsolete. It's gotta' be a conspiracy to keep the Civil War re-enactment movement down.

God save us all.

could have at least mentioned this one!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sco_eBvXGTQ&feature=related

or this...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSBFTKI-zIM

Well said! I thought this topic was weird, because I never thought of Thanksgiving as a religious holiday, either. Unfortunately, some will always find reasons to complain, rather than just being thankful for what they have and for being able to enjoy the day.

Does anyone else feel Religion and Politics should NOT be mixed in any way shape or form? ..... They really shouldn't.

Separation of Church and State is a fundamental
foundation of this society.

There is good reason for it.
Could not agree with you more Pucker.