Obama Thinks Original Declaration of Independence Not Good Enough?

Publius' Forum ^ | 1/19/09 | Warner Todd Huston

[Mobile Vulgus]

In his Saturday remarks during his campaign train ride, President-elect Barack Obama issued some soaring rhetoric about the state of the country today. At least the Old Media thought it was soaring rhetoric, anyway. Typically, the media was overawed by his mellifluous tones, of course. But during these remarks in Baltimore Obama made a startling suggestion. He said we need a "new Declaration of Independence."

Apparently the original one isn't good enough for the new president, but it also seems a silly rhetorical flourish. After all, what is it that we are declaring independence from this time? Recall that the original one was a declaration of separation from an oppressive monarchy, one that led to a seven-year-long war. Are we in such dire straits now?

And, needless to say, it is also amazing the Old Media didn't jump all over Obama for this conceit. Can you imagine the media giving a pass to a Republican that proposed making a new Declaration of Independence? Doubtless they would attack a Republican mercilessly for suggesting the original Declaration was out of date or no longer applicable -- as well they should.

Here are the excerpted remarks from Obama's January 17 speech concerning the Declaration...

Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...

[Mobile Vulgus]

Obama is as dangerous as it gets.

[Don Corleone]

After all, what is it that we are declaring independence from this time?

SANITY!!!

[ETL]

Related...

"Fraunces Tavern is a restaurant and museum in lower Manhattan, New York City. It was built on the site of a former building which played a significant role in pre-Revolutionary activities, and in which, on 4 December 1783, General George Washington bade farewell to his officers at the end of the Revolution, before returning to his home, Mount Vernon."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraunces_Tavern
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RE: Eric Holder's pardons of the FALN Puerto Rican Marxist terrorist. Holder is Obama's pick for U.S. Attorney General:

"During the 1970s and 1980s, FALN members set off at least 138 bombs in five major U.S. Cities. Six Americans were killed in those attacks. One of those bombings, in January 1975, was at the historic Fraunces Tavern in lower Manhattan while patrons were at lunch. The explosion killed four and injured more than 50."

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/05/bill_hillary_and_the_faln.html
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"Between 1974 and 1985 the FALN (Puerto Rican Armed Forces of National Liberation) organized 120 terrorist bombings in the United States. Many Americans were killed in those bombings, and many more were crippled. In 1983, another Puerto Rican terrorist group known as the Macheteros, attacked and robbed a Wells Fargo armored car in Connecticut. The Macheteros intended to use the money to finance a terrorist campaign against the United States. Working under the cover of Puerto Rican nationalism and claiming to act on behalf of the 'oppressed people of Puerto Rico,' the FALN and the Macheteros are nothing but Communist revolutionaries. Both groups were organized by Fidel Castro's secret police. The ultimate goal of the FALN and the Macheteros is the creation of an independent Marxist-Leninist dictatorship on the island of Puerto Rico."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=19760

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Eric Holder, Clinton, Wright’s BL(’Black Liberation’) “church” and the pardons of the PR Marxist terror group FALN:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2165024/posts

(Eric) Holder’s role in the pardons of BLA(Black Liberation Army) comrades/Weather Underground members, (Susan)Rosenberg and (Linda)Evans:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2165052/posts

[Sacajaweau]

Does he know what that oath he’s gonna mouth says? I’m not optimistic...

[x_plus_one]

we need a "new Declaration of Independence.

As long as the republican party is paralyzed by the race issue - it will be as effective as a deer in the headlights.

The new Declaration of Independence will be written by non-whites since the old one isn't valid anymore!

Until voices are heard decrying race-based politics, we are doomed to sink deeper into the mire of the white-guilt swamp.

[bergmeid]

I think Obama is not nearly good enough.

[Red6]

Who are the “Framers?”

Were they around in 1776 ACE?

[Soothesayer]

He probably wants to remove that whole spiel about “LIFE, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”.

It would make it easier for him to dispose of the unwanted and political enemies.

[Piquaboy]

They are just words and do not mean anything.

[muawiyah]

Still, he asked us to reject ideology, and that's very easy. I reject Socialism, Fascism, Communism, the Chicago Way, Obama's way, ..... etc.

There, that's done.

Now to implement the rejection ~

[Terry Mross]

He wants to change it to “guarantee happiness”.

[Between the Lines]

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."

Does anyone really understand this?

[Lesforlife]

“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.”

[Just another Joe]

Does he know what that oath he’s gonna mouth says?

He doesn't give an oath to protect the Declaration of Independence.
He will give an oath to protect the Constitution of the United States from enemies foreign and domestic.

[HungarianGypsy]

My son came in complaining about cartoon being preempted for this and was bothered by Obama’s comment.

[TLI]

It was these ideals that led us to declare independence, and craft our constitution, producing documents that were imperfect but had within them, like our nation itself, the capacity to be made more perfect.

And Øbama will have the "imperfect" documents (Declaration, Constitution, B.O.R) "corrected" by his commie azz?

Dream on Hussein...

[Colonial Warrior]

[Adder]

an appeal not to our easy instincts but to our better angels.”

huh? We gettin new angels?? kewl...I want one of the lottery ones...the one I got sorta lets me down sometimes and stuff....

[MaggieCarta]

He said we need a "new Declaration of Independence."

Oh, what the heck, why not? FDR's "Four Freedoms" gutted the Bill of Rights. Why not have a go at the Declaration?

He is dangerous. And, as some proof, here is my Overheard Obama voter quote of the day:

"Free trade and free enterprise is killing this country." I swear, I am not making this up.