When I went to visit my mother, her TV was stuck on President Obama’s Inaugural Address. It was painful to listen to it. Fortunately my 90-year-old mother is hard of hearing. I came in on this line from the address:
“Being true to our founding documents
does not require us to agree on every contour of life; it does not mean
we will all define liberty in exactly the same way, or follow the same
precise path to happiness.”
You and I might define liberty as being able to keep the money we
earn. Obama and friends may define liberty as taking money that you and I
earn and giving it to people who have decided to live in terms of
government generosity. He said as much. “For we, the people, understand
that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a
growing many barely make it.”Why aren’t people doing well? Because Obama defines liberty in a way that was different from the founders he referenced in his address.
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