The 44th President
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009Well, overall, the speech was good. Generic, but good. While I dislike his idea increasing government’s role in our lives, I am glad he set himself up to listen to reasoned argument that we should be taking the the Founding documents seriously. Yet… despite that, he talks about increasing governments role in the private sector.
Quite a disconnect.
The best part was when Dianne Finestein spoke. She spoke about non violence being the best way to gain Freedom. Assuming she meant the insistence of freedoms gauranteed per the constitution, I suppose that was good. Except she did not make any such clarification. So there I watched, surrounded by men and women who volunteered their lives for the protection of this Nation as she announces we can gain Freedom without violence.
Really? What would the British have said to that in 1776? Hitler or the Japanese in 1941? Those were fights, tooth and nail, for the freedom we enjoy and so frivolously waste away by giving it up to the Government. The peaceful Civil Rights marches were effective, not because violence was to win freedom, but because Freedom and Liberty was already gauranteed.