Jefferson's Notes On Virginia

My favorite line from the Declaration of Independence is:

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;

Same sex marriage is a transient cause.

Barack Obama has one portrait in his office, and it's of Thurgood Marshall.

...Like many anniversary celebrations, the plan for 1987 takes particular events and holds them up as the source of all the very best that has followed. Patriotic feelings will surely swell, prompting proud proclamations of the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice shared by the Framers and reflected in a written document now yellowed with age. This is unfortunatenot the patriotism itself, but the tendency for the celebration to oversimplify, and overlook the many other events that have been instrumental to our achievements as a nation. The focus of this celebration invites a complacent belief that the vision of those who debated and compromised in Philadelphia yielded the "more perfect Union" it is said we now enjoy.

I cannot accept this invitation, for I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever "fixed" at the Philadelphia Convention. Nor do I find the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice exhibited by the Framers particularly profound. To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war, and momentous social transformation to attain the system of constitutional government, and its respect for the individual freedoms and human rights, we hold as fundamental today. When contemporary Americans cite "The Constitution," they invoke a concept that is vastly different from what the Framers barely began to construct two centuries ago...

I believe Obama recently said he would have appointed Marshall over Thomas; or something along those lines.

If I were to define today’s Democrat, I believe I could do no better than to say they are conceited ignoramuses. Every one I know believes they are smarter than conservatives, despite their own lack of the most elementary facts necessary for valid opinions.

In designing our government the Founders first wanted us to be one nation, not four, not two. They knew we had faults and that we would have to work them out.

Marshall’s quest for a perfect constitution would have suited a few states while it subjected “his” people to continued slavery, which would have lasted for many, many more years. Correcting the problem would have led to a greater war, as it would have been later in time, the intention would have been telegraphed over more years and the Southern Nation would have been better prepared for war. Who knows? They may have won!

The liberals do not consider this data; they are ignorant. They proceed believing they are better than others without measuring their knowledge to others; they are conceited.

Personal: I hope you’re doing well and that life is good for you. Keep up the Spirit! Thank you for posting this, it was something I was not aware of.

I'm great hope you are the same. “Conceited ignoramuses”, you nailed it.

Obama and Marshall believe intelligence is intellectualizing and nuancing their stupidity. Sheer self aggrandizing vapidness.

http://www.freerepublic.com/~atomicpunk/

It may be a bit much for reading but the liberal lexicon is a good place to start learning about political doublespeak ! I have it right here on my homepage ...