Posted on 01/17/2009 7:40:07 PM PST by Michael Eden
What he can’t tolerate:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
“We are here today not simply to pay tribute to those patriots who founded our nation in Philadelphia or defended it in Baltimore, but to take up the cause for which they gave so much. The trials we face are very different now, but severe in their own right. Only a handful of times in our history has a generation been confronted with challenges so vast. An economy that is faltering. Two wars, one that needs to be ended responsibly, one that needs to be waged wisely. A planet that is warming from our unsustainable dependence on oil.
“And yet while our problems may be new, what is required to overcome them is not. What is required is the same perseverance and idealism that those first patriots displayed. What is required is a new declaration of independence, not just in our nation, but in our own lives — from ideology and small thinking, prejudice and bigotry — an appeal not to our easy instincts but to our better angels.”
You know, I am a HUGE “fan” of the RevWar, and so-called “1812” war. I live near Baltimore and am very aware of the INCREDIBLE stand made by EVERYONE in the “mob city” at that time against ALL the Brits (it is NOT just Ft. McHenry and the “Star-Spangled Banner”).
It SICKENS me whenever any Democrat talks about those “challenges” in political terms, especially.
To even compare facing the greatest country in the world in defiance and rebellion, to “challenges so vast” as alleged economic woes (vague, as yet, for most of us) and the non-existent “warming” (I still don’t get that) is vacuous, not to mention incomprehensible - but REPrehensible.
As for his “independence” - HAH! He even had the gall to say “from selfishness”. 1st off, how is sucking off the government teat either “independent” OR selfless? (No-one ever wants to call taking welfare “selfish”.)
Inalienable. ;-)
I don’t disagree, but you sure see it both ways.
I took that from an on-line version supposedly of
the original text.
Go figure!
Do you think Obama knows the Declaration was a list of grievances against an over powerful and far too reaching government?
If he does, he’s hoping we don’t!
I see, so anyone that disagrees with you, clings to those tired old ideals that have served civilized society for generations...well, we're just thinking small. Yes, it takes big, grand plans, grand thinking, and an inconceivably big ego to think you're in the same class as the founding fathers. Here's a hint O, you're not.
Supposedly Jefferson himself did indeed write “unalienable”. However, he was wrong (as he was on many things).
Studying Greek & Latin roots, “alien” is Greek and thus, must mate with a G/L type prefix, such as “in-”.
“Un-” is a Germanic (the true base of English) prefix form and thus does not match with a Greek root.
Quite the contrary; the Founders are ROLLING in their graves...not just at yet another communist (common since at least FDR), but at the SICKENING paper-hanging and worshipping displayed by so many sheep.
Please tell me this is just a Photoshop....
That picture is downright frightening!
Declaration of Independence from Individual Freedom is what he has in mind.
Making a mountain out of a mole hill, people really want to marginalize themselves with this BS.
Sorry. I’m one of the “marginalized” who still thinks the Declaration of Independence isn’t a “mole hill.”
Enjoy your new president with the rest of the mainstream.
And that's if DC is lucky.
You know, I am a HUGE “fan” of the RevWar, and so-called “1812” war. I live near Baltimore and am very aware of the INCREDIBLE stand made by EVERYONE in the “mob city” at that time against ALL the Brits (it is NOT just Ft. McHenry and the “Star-Spangled Banner”).
It SICKENS me whenever any Democrat talks about those “challenges” in political terms, especially.
To even compare facing the greatest country in the world in defiance and rebellion, to “challenges so vast” as alleged economic woes (vague, as yet, for most of us) and the non-existent “warming” (I still don’t get that) is vacuous, not to mention incomprehensible - but REPrehensible.
As for his “independence” - HAH! He even had the gall to say “from selfishness”. 1st off, how is sucking off the government teat either “independent” OR selfless? (No-one ever wants to call taking welfare “selfish”.)
Benjamim Franklin (You know, one of those guys we can get rid of now) said, “When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”
The Democratic Party is the one that degenerated from “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can to for your country,” to “What is the government going to do for me?”
“That picture is downright frightening!”
I am reminded that nearly 60% of Obama voters had no idea that Democrats have been in complete control of Congress for nearly two years as the country went from prosperity to disaster. This gentleman explains how we managed to elect the worst president in American history at a moment when we needed one of the best.
MY EYES!! MY EYES!!
Brings a whole new meaning to “...when the fat lady sings”.
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