Good grief. That’s throw away fluff.
I'm surprised they let her speak.
The Declaration asserts self-evident truth. It asserts the equality of all men before the One Who created them. It asserts that our God-given rights, specifically the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, are unalienable. And it asserts that the reason for the existence of human government is to protect those rights.
Which, taken with the simple straightforward words of our Constitution, means that every officer of government in America, in every branch, and at every level, has a sworn duty to protect those rights.
Which flies in the face of Mrs. Palin's claim that abortion should be "left up to the states."
Yes, implicit in the Declaration of Independence is the concept of responsibility. She's right. But her stated position on abortion runs one hundred and eighty degrees out of phase with her own statement.
Should be said over and over for the learning impaired.
Actually kind of profound. I mean, it’s obvious...if you read it. Not everybody does. And not everybody who does thinks about it. I actually hadn’t that much. They didn’t just say “hey, we’re independent”, they said “we have the power to act as independent states do and we accept the responsibility of acting as independent states, and we pledge everything we are and everything we have to make it so”. And did so knowing that if they lost, everything they were and everything they had were exactly what the British would demand of them. That’s fluff? Damn, people are demanding.