Obama’s appalling victory speech
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“Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny to perfect our union moves forward.”
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The first element of the Obama Code is the startling state of his grammar. What is the subject of “moves forward”?
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Grammar, you see, is how we clarify meaning. The Obama Code rests on vagueness, on multiple meanings that can be read into a statement. For the cognoscenti, the meaning can be clear, while the rest of us respond to what we guess is meant, based on the pleasant connotations of many of the words chosen. Nice words like “perfect.”
The second element of the Obama Code is the wink to the hard left buried in his word choices. You see, he told us that our “destiny” is “to perfect our union.” The wisdom of our Constitution, a “flawed document” in Obama’s eyes, is that it does not promise perfection, but rather checks and balances. It consists of “negative rights” and doesn’t obligate government to guarantee largesse (”positive rights,” like health care) to its citizens.
That must change. That is the agenda.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/11/obamas_appalling_victory_speech.html
The subject of “moves forward” is “union.” That agrees. The problem with that sentence is that the union moving forward doesn’t belong there and is awkwardly tacked on to the end of the atrocious syntax and indecipherable meaning of the passage “won the right to determine its own destiny to perfect.”
Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny to perfect our union moves forward.”
Too bad we can’t just find establish a new country and start over. Unfortunately, the cockroaches always follow.
Indeed. His vagueness is intentional. It is not from ignorance or lack of education.