A clear majority of the American people want no part of this.I have long believed that the Preamble to the ConstitutionThey[We] instinctively know that the Obama way is not how things get done in this country.They[We]y are motivated by love. Not hate, not sedition.They[We] love their country and want to save it from those who do not.
was an expression of love. To me the central phrase, the bumper sticker, the Mission Statement of the preamble and thus of the Constitution as a whole is,We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterityIt is the lens through which everything else should be seen and understood. It is the theme around which Americans are unified and the hill upon which we aspire, if necessary, to die. It is an expression of love.It is not an expression of exclusion; even as we demand that our national sovereignty be protected it is not even an expression of exclusion of the citizens of other countries. Because not only Americans but foreigners fit the definition of "posterity" of the framers of the Constitution.
It is often said that other countries "don't have the Constitution," but of course they do. It is a secret to nobody. They lack a tradition of submission to the Constitution by their leaders - but they do have the Constitution, and the example of what can be the fruits of respecting it. It can make a country which becomes the envy of the world. Even if, Heaven forefend, President Obama succeeds fully in "changing" America, the "Great Experiment" has already been conducted, and the results have been seen. Knowledge of those results, like the history of Rome, will endure.
Ping.