US Congresswoman Betty McCullum
Thanks to a pissed off MN CD 4 voter for finding this gem and sharing with us. What you will see is a sad display of disrespect by a United States Congresswoman from Minnesota, Democrat Betty McCollum. It is a video that Betty does not want her voters to see, but it’s too late Betty, you have been exposed.After watching this video you will see how obvious it is that she she intentionally omitted the words, “Under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance.
At the time, her staffers claimed she took a breath, but with the video now out, the lie has been exposed. She intentionally omitted the phrase. What really makes this an affront to all is that she was actually leading the pledge on the floor of the House. If she were just saying it as a part of the whole chamber it would have been fine. However, by omitting the words, “under God”, she was actually showing her disrespect to her position, the Flag, God and the American people. Oh, did I mention that she likes to brag about her Catholic faith when running for re-election?
If this offends you, or makes you angry, then I like many others ask that you email and call your friends who may be in her district to help expose her disrespectful attitude towards America and our pledge.
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KansasGirl
| October 24, 2010 7:01 PM
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Does this woman believe in GOD?
KansasGirl
| October 24, 2010 7:57 PM
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I couldn’t imagine having a mother like her.
I agree with you KG, and you are also most likely correct by questioning whether or not she even believes in GOD.
That’s OK though, because God knows she exists, and she will learn that one day when she is standing before Him.
Thanks for leaving a comment.
MadVoterInMN
| October 24, 2010 9:36 PM
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Thanks for posting; Betty McCollum must be voted out! See my original posting here:
http://mncdneedschange.blogspot.com/2010/07/video-betty-mccollum-doesnt-want-you-to.html
Marine88
| October 24, 2010 10:59 PM
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I’m an atheist Iraq war vet; I believe she made the correct decision. Many of us atheists are good patriots. Not all of us want to be sermonized to by our politicians.
There is a reason the Constitution calls for a separation between church and state.
-Mike
No where in the constitution does it have the phrase “Separation of Church and State”.
It was taken from a letter Jefferson wrote to a church official.
The founding fathers only said that the government cannot set up an official government religion like England did in the Church of England.
Study history for yourself and quit counting on the leftists schools and liberal media to be your educator. Open your eyes and learn the truth.
Otherwise you will be one of the many who will willingly go into the gas showers with no worry that the state wants you dead!
Thanks, I’ll amend Tom’s article by adding a link to your site.
MadVoterInMN
| October 25, 2010 6:05 AM
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Not a problem; I just want everyone to know about this person. How she denies God, is anti-Israel and doesn’t believe voter fraud is a problem in her district, yet this is the district that Al Franken won because of voter fraud.
MadVoterInMN
| October 25, 2010 10:06 AM
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Way to go, it made front page of http://www.foxnation.com! Thanks much for your help; we are doing everything we can to vote this goof out.
The challenger is law professor Teresa Collett. If anyone would like to help donate, here is Teresa’s website…
http://www.collettforcongress.com/
AJS
| October 25, 2010 10:37 AM
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I’m as conservative as they come, a true red white and blue patriot – but also agnostic. However, I’d never go so far as to disrespect the Pledge. It wouldn’t kill me to say the word God. I also don’t go around touting my Catholic faith to get myself elected as this woman apparently does. My point, I guess is, men and women have died for our right to believe whatever we want regarding religion, and I take full advantage of that right. But in my opinion that doesn’t give me the right to be disrespectful while doing so.
Awesome.
We can make a difference when we all work together. I will add her link to my post.
If we persist, we will get influential persons to catch our rants from time to time.
Thanks for the heads up.
And that is the whole rub. If one disagrees, then disagree and try to change things through the proper channels, but don’t be disrespectful.
You know, if she were in the audience and refused to say the words, that would have been fine. However, she was leading the pledge, and that is why she was wrong.
StPaulCD4Voter
| October 25, 2010 2:09 PM
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If you find this upsetting you can help us in St. Paul dump this goof by sending $20 to Teresa Collett here http://www.collettforcongress.com/donate/
Thanks!
Bookin Weasel replied to comment from Gate
| October 25, 2010 2:35 PM
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Very good point. She was LEADING the pledge yet instead of showing the respect and wisdom of leading she went off on her own personal tangent and drew even more attention(negative) to herself.
Odin
| October 25, 2010 4:44 PM
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All Muslims don’t want to kill us, moron. And “all” aren’t offended by the deletion of the phrase “under god” from the pledge, although you’d undoubtedly like to believe that.
We’re not one nation, under god. Some of us don’t believe in that superstitious twaddle.
Mpup
| October 25, 2010 5:11 PM
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Betty McCollum certainly has the right to remove God from the Pledge of Allegiance……..just as the voters have the right to tell her to go to h*ll.
Dave replied to comment from Marine88
| October 25, 2010 7:38 PM
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YOU ARE WRONG MIKE. The constitution does NOT call for the separation of church and state it is a RECENT invention of the 1962 case first attempted in 1947 (failed) and is now successful INFERENCE that has no basis in fact. From the first amendment debate (the actual congressional record) you can read the exact intent. It is provided below so that you can stop believing AND PROMOTING a lie.
August 15, 1789. Mr. [Peter] Sylvester [of New York] had some doubts…He feared it [the First Amendment] might be thought to have a tendency to abolish religion altogether…Mr. [Elbridge] Gerry [of Massachusetts] said it would read better if it was that “no religious doctrine shall be established by law.”…Mr. [James] Madison [of Virginia] said he apprehended the meaning of the words to be, that “Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce the legal observation of it by law.”…[T]he State[s]…seemed to entertain an opinion that under the clause of the Constitution…it enabled them [Congress] to make laws of such a nature as might…establish a national religion; to prevent these effects he presumed the amendment was intended…Mr. Madison thought if the word “National” was inserted before religion, it would satisfy the minds of honorable gentlemen…He thought if the word “national” was introduced, it would point the amendment directly to the object it was intended to prevent.
(Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (Washington D.C.: Gales & Seaton, 1834, Vol. I pp. 757-759, August 15, 1789)
FRIEND IN CHRIST,Tammy
| October 25, 2010 7:38 PM
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I THINK IT’S REALLY SAD THAT SHE DOES’NT KNOW GOD.MAYBE SHE HAS HAD A TRAGEDY IT HER FAMILY THAT HAS CAUSED HER TO TURN AWAY FROM GOD,I DON’T KNOW THAT THATS THE CASE BUT I PERSONALLY WOULD NOT WANT TO FACE LIFE OR EVEN A TRAGEDY WITH OUT GOD.I PRAY GOD WILL OPEN HER EYES AND ALLOW HER TO SEE THAT HE TRULY DOES EXIST.
Steve B in Portland
| October 25, 2010 10:11 PM
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The phrase “under God” was added to the pledge in 1956 by a Senate terrified by communists and the threat of the “red scare”.
The phrase is offensive to atheistists and sincerely religious people alike as it breaks the the spirit, as well as the letter of the First Amendment on the Constitution, which reads:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Morgan Duncan
| October 26, 2010 6:29 AM
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I have no problem with this. God is about as real as purple unicorns are. Christians, Muslims and Jews are all delusional sadly. Religion unfortunately perpetuates mass delusion. There is not a single shred of evidence that god exists. I don’t live in Ms McCollum’s district, but I will be donating to her campaign because of this. We need fewer fundies in office and more rational people that don’t believe in fairy tales of the Bible and Quran.
Tom Hawks replied to comment from Odin
| October 26, 2010 9:06 AM
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Odin,
I did ask Chuck to amend the heading of my post. However, I only did so because this is not an article about Muslims or the war on terror.
That being said, we are at war with Islam, like it or not. It was not a country that attacked us. It is not a country sanctioned government that beheads Christian heads while the person is alive with a dull knife in various Muslim controlled areas of the world. It is not a country that attacked soldiers in Texas. It is not a country that sends men, women and children into crowds with bombs strapped to their bodies for the express purpose of killing non-Muslims.
These are all attacks by men who are Muslim, and because they understand that their Holy book the Koran tells them they should do whatever it takes to destroy the infidels. The Korans is a book written by one man during one man’s life. A book that tells his followers that any one who is not a Muslim must be forced to convert to Islam, or face the consequences of being put to death. Other than Judaism when the whole world was barbaric, no other religion in the world commands that its followers kill those who will not convert. No, Islam is the only religion, and so Islam is at war with the world.
So you should be able to see if you wanted to know the truth, that Islam declared war not just on America, but against the whole non-Muslim world. The phrase I use under my moniker, the hawk, is a factual statement. After all, it is the liberals and Muslims who say that anyone who tells the truth about Islam is said to have an irrational phobia of Islam. Well, as that phrase so eloquently states, “It is not Islamaphobia, when they really do want to kill you”.
It is true that the only Muslims who do not wish to kill those of us who will not convert to Islam are in direct violation of the Koran. That is why every Muslim controlled country does not persecute those who do kill the infidels, they support them. maybe behind the scenes where the world does not see it, but they do. When was the last time you saw, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Lybia, Sudan, or any other Muslim controlled country put to death a Muslim guilty of killing Christians or even when was the last time they extradited a murdering Muslim that is wanted in connection with murdering someone in a non-Muslim country?
As OneVike is fond of saying, “Islam is a religion born straight out of the depths of HELL”. I pray you see the light one day, but if you do not in this world, you will when you bow before God and confess that Jesus LORD!
Sorry for the rant, but you asked for it by making your statement that ALL Muslims do not wish to kill us.
As for you claim that we are not one nation under God, true all the people are not believers in God, but every nation on the earth is under God. He is the One True Creator of the universe. He props up, and takes down rulers. But for the grace of God, we would all be living like the orphans in Bangladesh, not knowing where our next meal is coming from, or even if we will be alive to see the sunset tonight or rise in the morning.
America is a nation set upon Judeo Christian values, and we need to get back to where those who are perverse and lazy are shunned by society again, not held up as examples of moral pillars of our society.
Tom Hawks replied to comment from Steve B in Portland
| October 26, 2010 9:17 AM
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What you fail to understand is that we were a nation under God long before the words, “under God” were added to the pledge.
Read the preamble of the Constitution, it has the following in it,
So try as you may, you are as wrong as this disrespectful Congresswoman. Also, she is running on the fact that she is a Christian. She keeps telling her constituents that she is Catholic. So she is not an atheist as you and many others elude to. So she is also disrespecting her religion also.
Tom Hawks replied to comment from Morgan Duncan
| October 26, 2010 9:19 AM
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My friend, one day you will stand in front of God and then you will know that He is who you deny exists.
MadVoterInMN
| October 27, 2010 9:25 PM
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Gate,
Can you help Teresa out. I just posted a letter to the editor of St. Paul’s paper, asking them for their endorsement of Teresa. The letter is posted on my blog…
http://mncdneedschange.blogspot.com/2010/10/open-letter-to-st-paul-pioneer-press.html
If you can’t, not a problem, just thought I would ask.
Thanks much.
I’ll do what I can, but trying to get the St Paul Pioneer Press to endorse a conservative is a tall bill to fill. I think it would be easier to get the Muslim in the White House to eat pork at a Christian BBQ on Easter.
I will get your letter posted where it will be read by may though.
Take care, you are doing the Lords work and sometimes it can be disheartening, but stick to it. The path you blaze today will be revisited in two years and the squeakier you are now, the more you will be remembered in 2012. Then Teresa will do even better.
Trust me, I live in California so I know the battle you wage.
God bless, I’ll let you know.
Chuck
MadVoterInMN
| October 28, 2010 7:10 AM
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Chuck,
Thank you much for your help. I took an oath when I joined the military as a young man to protect our country from enemies, both foreign and domestic. I’ve already faced the foreign enemy; I never imagined that 20 years later, I would be fighting a domestic enemy.
Thanks again, and God Bless.
MV
MN04
| October 28, 2010 7:38 AM
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Congresswoman McCollum has led the Pledge of Allegiance on the House floor several times before. Check out http://mccollum.house.gov/pledge. It’s all there.
I’ll check it out. Thanks
MadVoterInMN
| October 28, 2010 12:39 PM
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Chuck,
Just so you know. Here is a response from another Twin Cities blog regarding what MN04 just posted. In Betty’s press release, all she did was point out that if you disagree with her, than you are an extremist and radical.
http://www.looktruenorth.com/elections/us-congress/14378-real-minnesota-congresswoman-of-genius.html
The only ones not pissed about this, are the libtards that are still going to vote for Betty.
This is a response to me from another blog owner I corresponded with…
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MadVoterInMN,
Just so you know, MN04 is a government shill for McCollum. The IP address is from Washington DC and the email address for MN04 ends with “@mail.house.gov”
Also, MN04 has left the same exact message on other websites:
http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-minneapolis/betty-goes-viral
http://www.usmessageboard.com/congress/138992-what-do-these-dems-have-against-god.html
http://friendfeed.com/jookosnews/90106dc6/video-democrat-betty-mccollum-leaves-out-under
Yup, astroturfing the internet, are we Ms. McCollum, err… I mean, MN04?
Cheers
Seems we hit a nerve with Betty McCollum. Her staff is starting to spam the blogs that carried the CSAPN video clip with her omitting the words (“under God” from the pledge. They are using MN04 as name. well we are on to you Betty. What a fight. You are poing to wish you just ignored it.
Alan
| October 31, 2010 7:06 PM
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Nonsense. Angry, religious people doing the bidding of their imaginary friend… Not imaginary, you say? Got material evidence? Leave the woman alone. It’s inconsequential.
Your comment is typical of an Incoherent rambling leftist who wants us to leave the anti-American Socialist alone. Whats wrong, you have a problem with the truth? Come Tuesday, Democrats all over this country are going to be defeated because of attitudes like yours. God shall not be mocked my friend, and a vast majority of Americans are tired of the same old leftist lies.
Mark my words, if Betty does not go down to defeat on Tuesday, she will in 2012. I will do all I can to help those in MNCD04 to remove her from the Peoples House, because she has no respect for the people that House represents, the Country that House represents. nor the God that allowed this country to exist. Betty McCollum’s political career is on its last journey because her time is up!