I think it’s fairly obvious Obama got the two documents mixed up. A great many people do this, of course.
I had an extended conversation with a guy who claimed the Constitution referenced God, which, unlike the DOI, it does not.
He finally came up with date at the bottom, which refers to the year of our Lord.
Which I thought was really stretching things.
The DOI and Constitution have very different roles. DOI is aspirational. The Constitution is an operating manual for a gvernment which is capable of implementing those aspirations, if we don’t screw it up, which we’re well on the way to doing.
yes he mixed them up - and my points are:
1) it’s the SOTU address, not some off-the-cuff chat.... so the standards should be a lot higher for accuracy
2) related to that, Obambi is not (supposed to be) merely some guy who stumbled up to the lectern -— we was (even if not tenured) paid to teach (supposedly) Con Law at one of the (aupposedly) most elite law schools in the country, U. of Chicago
3) we know that if any R. President ever made such a screw-up about such fundamental American documents the MSM would be “Quayling” away for the next 30 years — yet Obambi ought to be far more “expert” on those docs than almost any other POTUS in history..... yet he’s not. That is significant to say the least.
4) following up on 1) above, this is a major annual address which goes through repeated drafts and revisions, and the (especially with Obozo) gets read off the teleprompter — he can’t use the excuse that it was a momentary brain fart
I don’t think he should be cut one millimeter of slack on this -— he’s not only the POTUS giving a carefully prepared address, the biggest one of the year for a POTUS, but his “mix up” lies right in the heart of what was supposedly his field of expertise.
It’s just another indication that he is a puppet of the people who manage him and put words in his mouth -— every modern pol is that to some extent but with Obama it’s a chronic condition, and he should not be given any slack on his “mix ups” -— sure as heck George W. Bush never was, even when he didn’t make a mistake the MSM would try to turn it into one.....