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News Release
For Immediate Release: February 4, 2010
Contact: Diane Gramley 814.271.9078 or 1.814.437.5355

President Continues Divisiveness at National Prayer Breakfast

(Washington, DC) – President Obama continued his divisive ways in the speech delivered this morning at the National Prayer Breakfast. A Gallup Poll last month found America’s President to be the most divisive in history. Results showed a 65 percentage point gap between Republican and Democrat approval of Obama, which beat the previous record of 52 percentage points held by Bill Clinton. The American Family Association of Pennsylvania (AFA of PA), a statewide traditional values group, is appalled that the President continues his efforts to divide the country.

“The President loosely throws the word ‘civility’ around without apparent knowledge as to what it means. His administration has lacked courtesy and politeness – the real meanings of civility – since he took the oath of office last January,” Diane Gramley, president of the AFA of PA remarked.

Some examples include:

1.) During his January 27^th State of the Union address, the President ‘apologized’ "for not explaining it (health care) more clearly to the American people." The subject, he noted, was "complex." (Note: he gave 29 speeches on the subject, but Americans apparently just didn’t get it)

2.) In November President Obama remarks to Democrats during a meeting at the Cannon Office Building included calling those who oppose his health care bill and attend TEA Parties ‘extremists.’ h

3.) Targeting Rush Limbaugh because of comments taken out of context last January.

The President’s remarks given during the National Prayer Breakfast included commending the work of his Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships for “promoting fatherhood here at home to spearheading interfaith cooperation abroad. “

The AFA of PA asks whether he was thinking of the remarks of one of the members of the Advisory Council. Openly homosexual Harry Knox said in a May 11 PBS interview when speaking of responsible fatherhood Knox said, "It'll be challenging to do that in a way ... not to sort of hold a heteronormative view of fatherhood up as the only model." What message about fatherhood is being spearheaded abroad?

Gramley concluded, “I’m not sure the majority of Americans share the same dream as President Obama. I believe they want less government interference in their lives, they want the free market system to be allowed to work and they want less spending of our tax dollars on programs and commissions that don’t work. It is quite evident that there is a disconnect between President Obama and the American people.”

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