[High Praise! to Freedom Is Just Another Word]
The American’s Creed was developed by William Ty ler Page, clerk of the United States House of Representatives in 1917, in answer to a national contest for such a creed. He incorporated in a brief, clear statement the basic American traditions and ideals, as expressed by the founders of our country and by its leading statesmen and writers.
Footnotes & commentary on the Creed can be found here (PDF file).
Interesting. I was not aware of it. Surprisingly, my liberal teachers never brought it up.
Unfortunately, you can only get eight words into it before Obama, in a Don Corleone voice, interrupts you and says “… but you don’t come to me as a friend . . . “
Quite cool.
Hopefully the “and to defend it against all enemies” clause will provide me some legal cover next time I encounter a hippie who needs punched.
Yeah well elected officials swear on the Bible to protect and defend the Constitution and we see how far that’s gotten us.
My only real problem with this is that my “just powers” are not “derived from the consent of the government.”