If the pandering "talking points" laid out last night by this President were laid out alongside Jefferson's eloquent listing of the "essential ideas" of liberty, as itemized in his First Inaugural, then many Americans might begin to understand how far America has drifted away from its foundations in freedom.
Circulating Jefferson's words to as many citizens as we can between now and 2016 might go a long way toward "enlightening" the minds of many.
After all, they simply may not have thought through the appropriate Constitutional role of the American President, as well as the other branches of government which "the People's" Constitution limited, structured, divided, separated, checked and balanced in order to protect individual liberty of citizens against invasions by elected and appointed representatives in that government.
” If the pandering “talking points” laid out last night by this President were laid out alongside Jefferson’s eloquent listing of the “essential ideas” of liberty, as itemized in his First Inaugural, then many Americans might begin to understand how far America has drifted away from its foundations in freedom.”
I agree - but first it would have to be translated into 4th grade English to have most of our population understand it.