One cannot have a sensible dialog with someone whose rhetoric defaults to “x+y=infinity” and “x-y=0” for any values of x and y he finds inconvenient.
The President, as is his wont, revels in reducing his opponents to mere caricatures, and the worth of their arguments to a species of thoughtless cruelty.
He does so because in truth, he but a caricature of a real President, and one fully imbued with the meanness of spirit he reflexively assigns to those who oppose him or worse, who threaten to reveal his one and only true object: his own glorification.
We have for the first time in our nation's history a President who genuinely and devoutly opposes the central principles upon which the American nation was founded: individual human liberty, the inalienable rights of all bequeathed by a just and loving Creator as a right of birth, not as a gift from a benevolent state power, or from its leader, whether chosen or not.
Do we oppose Mr. Obama? Yes, we do.
Because it is right and just to oppose a government that seeks not to protect rights but to impose endless laws, regulations and taxes that constrain and punish hard work, honor, and achievement, while rewarding sloth, immorality, and dependency.
Because it is right and just to promote liberty, commerce and voluntary association by a free people, and to oppose statism, collectivism and illegitimate means of social control by a central government that has forgotten its place.
Because it is right and just to promote a common culture and community by which all may prosper, and to oppose the divisive politics of group grievance.
Because it is right and just to promote human virtue, as reflected by honor, respect, decency, love, compassion, learning, and by productive enterprise.
And it is equally our duty to oppose a so-called "leader" who promotes the very opposite of virtue, and who practices it daily, with reckless abandon.