We should have voted this man in years ago. He understands the Constitution and the Republic--Pat Buchanan at his best...my bold highlighting.
"Obama has hijacked the American Revolution".
“Second Term Begins With a Sweeping Agenda for Equality,” ran
the eight-column banner in which the Washington Post captured the essence of
Obama’s second inaugural. There he declared:
“What binds this nation together … what makes us
exceptional – what makes us American – is our allegiance to an idea,
articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago.
Obama then quoted our Declaration of Independence:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men
are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.”
Our “union,” Obama went on, was “founded on the
principles of liberty and equality.”
Nice prose – and transparent nonsense.
How could the American Union have been founded on the
principle of equality, when “equality” is not mentioned in the Constitution,
the Bill of Rights or the Federalist Papers? How could equality be a founding
principle of a nation, six of whose 13 original states had legalized slavery,
and five of whose first seven presidents owned slaves all their lives?
What Obama preached in his inaugural was not
historical truth but progressive propaganda, an Orwellian rewrite of American
history.
Undeniably, the post-Civil War 13th, 14th and 15th
amendments established an equality of constitutional rights. And from the Brown
decision of 1954 through the civil rights acts of the 1960s, there was
established an equality of civil rights. Black Americans were assured equal
access to schools, public accommodations, the voting booth and housing. And
Congress and the people overwhelmingly supported those laws.
But if the nation did not establish equality of
constitutional rights until the 1860s and equality of civil rights until the
1960s, how can Obama claim that “equality” has been the feature that “makes us
American” and “binds this nation together.”
How can he say that our commitment to equality is what
makes us “exceptional” – when every Western country believes in equal rights
for all of its citizens, and it was the French Revolution, not ours, that
elevated “egalite” to a founding principle.
And when he says equality “is the star that guides us
still,” exactly what kind of equality is Obama talking about?
Answer: The equality of which Obama speaks is not an
equality of rights but an equality of results, an idea that dates not to the
Founding Fathers, who would have been appalled by the idea, but to the 1960s.
This equality is not a founding principle of the
republic. It is ideological contraband. For such equality can only be achieved
at the price of freedom, our true founding principle.
That idea that “all of us are created equal – is the
star that guides us still,” said Obama in his inaugural, “just as it guided our
forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall.”
Astonishing. The president is here making the brazen
claim that the roots of modern feminism and gay rights can be traced straight
back to the Founding Fathers and founding principles of our republic.
But how? The sanctum sanctorum of modern feminism is
Roe v. Wade, the discovery of a constitutional right to an abortion. Yet, for
every generation of Americans before 1973, abortion was a heinous crime.
And can anyone seriously argue that a barroom brawl
with cops by homosexual patrons of Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village in 1969
was but another battle in the long war for liberty begun at Lexington ,
Concord and Bunker Hill ?
How could that be, when the author of the declaration
Obama cites, Thomas Jefferson, believed homosexuality should be treated as
rape, and George Washington ordered homosexuals drummed out of his army?
What Obama was attempting at the Capitol, with his
repeated lifts from Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln, was to portray his own and
his party’s egalitarianism as a continuation of the great cause that triumphed
at Yorktown and Appomattox
He is hijacking the American Revolution, claiming an
ancestral lineage for his ideology that is utterly fraudulent and bogus.
Feminism, the gay-rights movement and the post-1965
civil-rights movement, with their demand for equality not simply of rights but
of rewards, cannot be achieved without trampling on the freedoms for which the
patriot fathers fought. And they cannot triumph without creating a permanent,
mammoth and redistributionist state more powerful, intrusive and dictatorial
than anything George III ever dreamed of.
The freedom of all Americans to compete academically,
athletically, artistically and economically must inevitably result in an
inequality of incomes, wealth and rewards.
Why? Because all men and women are by nature and
nurture unequal. Some are talented, ambitious, industrious, lucky. And in a
free society, such men and women will always reap a disproportionate share of
fame and fortune.
The only way to equalize rewards is to take from those
who have earned and give to those who have not. And that requires the kind of
redistributionst regime the Founding Fathers would have risen up against.
As Obama’s America
