They just open the door to full view of their ignorance of America's founding philosophy as expressed by those who made this "miracle" possible!
As I wrote on another thread concerning Peggy Noonan's "too much God" comment (one who should know better):
Thank goodness, Washington, the Adamses, Jefferson, Madison, Jay, Franklin, et al didn't have to ask today's pundits about including references to the "Creator," "Governor of the Universe," "Divine Providence," "Nature's God," "Supreme Judge," or the "Author" of liberty, or any of the other terms they used to acknowledge the Source of rights and liberty.
Bush's Second Inaugural is reminiscent of speeches of America's Founding Period, and one of the profound ideas he expressed sounded like the following quotation from Thomas Jefferson's very last letter in 1826. It comes from the UVA Jefferson Cyclopedia:
7628. RIGHTS OF MAN, Recognition of...
"All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by. . . ."
TITLE: To Roger C. Weightman. EDITION: Washington ed. vii, 450. EDITION: Ford ed., x, 391. PLACE: Monticello DATE: June 24, 1826
As for another of Noonan's claims, there is an ancient book which admonishes:
"Without a vision, the people perish." Is it just possible that an "over the top" vision is what our cynical age needs? Surely, America's Founders, as well as those who preceded them to this land, were dreamers with vision.
As early as 1758, Nathaniel Ames envisioned an America where "arts and sciences will change the face of nature in their tour from hence over the Apalachian Mountains to the Western Ocean..." He continued:
"O ye unborn inhabitants of America! Should this page escape the destined conflagration at the year's end, and these alphabetical letters remain legible,--when your eyes behold the sun after he has rolled the season round for two or three centuries more, you will know that in Anno Domini, 1758, we dreamed of your times." - (Ames Almanac, 1758, as recorded in Richard Frothingham's "Rise of the Republic of the United States," Little, Brown and Company, 1881)
To renew America, we must meet challenges abroad as well at home. There is no longer division between what is foreign and what is domestic[snip]Clearly America must continue to lead the world we did so much to make.[snip]
When our vital interests are challenged, or the will and conscience of the international community is defied, we will act—with peaceful diplomacy when ever possible, with force when necessary[snip]
Our hopes, our hearts, our hands, are with those on every continent who are building democracy and freedom
The scripture says, "And let us not be weary in well-doing, for in due season, we shall reap, if we faint not."