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August 31, 2010
Re: 'Why Obama Won't Embrace the Declaration of Independence'
Topics: Political News and commentariesAs Jeffrey H. Anderson aptly points out at TWS, the Obama administration's admission of sins to the UN is just the latest example of Barack Obama's disdain for, and disconnect from, our Declaration of Independence:
[...] It's certainly telling that the Obama administration chose to issue condemnations of America's sins -- alleged or otherwise, past or present -- and to submit these to the UN. But even more illuminating is what the administration chose to omit in its report. In a 29-page overview of the respect (or lack thereof) for rights shown in America and throughout American history, the administration couldn't find space for a single meaningful reference to the document that lays out and informs our fundamental conceptions of rights more than any other: the Declaration of Independence. This omission offers further compelling evidence to support an increasingly obvious truth: President Obama doesn't take seriously the ideals of the American revolutionary period. Or, to state it more exactly, he takes very seriously the project of overcoming or supplanting those ideals.Read the entire article - here ...[...] Most Americans who believe that there is truly something extraordinary, and extraordinarily good, about this country, base much of that belief on our founding documents and the wise and beautiful ideals they express. They mark our nation as unique, as one whose fate is still "in many respects the most interesting in the world" -- just as when Alexander Hamilton first penned those words.
In marked contrast, President Obama was asked last year whether he believes in American exceptionalism. He replied, "I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism, and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism." These words, like the U.N. report, are telling: In his disconnection from the glorious events and ideals of America's founding, President Obama stands disconnected from America itself.
Someday, not so far in the distant future, historians are going to look back at the Barack Obama presidency and ask themselves how an America that loves freedom and liberty so much, could have elected a president whose ideology and agenda was so far removed from what America's founders stood for and believed in.
Posted by Richard at August 31, 2010 1:12 PM
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