[kesg]

"He told the world that 'there can be no human rights without human liberty.'"

I thought this was odd. I always thought the President thought that we all had human rights regardless of whether or not people lived without liberty.

It seems pretty clear to me what his point is: we cannot exercise our [inalienable] rights if we live in a political system or under political circumstances in which we lack the political freedom to do so. To which I respond, well duh!

[BikerNYC]

Then he should have said that. Otherwise, it appears that he is subscribing to a theory in which human rights are created by the consent of the governed and not God.