Sarah Palin, the gift that keeps giving.

[gridlore]

Q: Are you offended by the phrase "Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance? Why or why not?

PALIN: Not on your life. If it was good enough for the founding fathers, its good enough for me and I’ll fight in defense of our Pledge of Allegiance.

sigh. The Pledge was written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy. This would be 116 years after the United States was declared. The words "under God" were added in 1954 (178 years after the Founding Fathers did their thing.)

Comments

S'truth

[capplor.livejournal.com]

http://history.vineyard.net/pledge.htm

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

And Let's Not Forget- That several founding fathers would have been Highly Annoyed by the Under God part. They actually were closer to agnostic than anything, and hated God being any part of the founding papers. Much to the annoyance of the Christians in the group.
Do you get the feeling this argument has been around for a few hundred years? :D

[sharrukin.livejournal.com]

(Snort.)

[vayacondia.livejournal.com]

Yeahhh, it's almost like McCain doesn't WANT to win.

[robertprior.livejournal.com]

How many voters know that, though?

[nolly.livejournal.com]

Link to source? (Not that I doubt the accuracy; I just want to see the rest of the interview.)

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

http://eagleforumalaska.blogspot.com/2006/07/2006-gubernatorial-candidate.html

[nolly.livejournal.com]

thanks!

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Hey, do me a favor? Send me a copy of the complete programming schedule for Conjecture? I'd like to see what I'm missing.

TIA!

[nolly.livejournal.com]

when it's done...

[darthgeek.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, that blog post is missing now. How curious. Fortunately, google's cache (http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:Lh8LX8KyM6sJ:eagleforumalaska.blogspot.com/2006/07/2006-gubernatorial-candidate.html+http://eagleforumalaska.blogspot.com/2006/07/2006-gubernatorial-candidate.html&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a) has it.