* Pastor Rick Warren said that one of the things that binds us together as Americans is our "commitment to freedom."
Unless, of course, you are gay. You can't have your freedom. Or a medical marijuana patient. You can't have your freedom, either. Or you want to hire someone who is willing to work for less than minimum wage. Neither you nor your potential employee can have your freedom.
So maybe we just have a commitment to freedom when the government decides it's a good idea.
* Obama said that we will "stay true to our founding documents."
He, like almost every single politician, Democratic or Republican, fails to see the fraud in that contention.
If we are true to our founding documents, what happenened to the concept of "enumerated powers?" How can the Tenth Amendment, a part of our Bill of Rights, be completely ignored?
Because we are NOT true to our founding documents. Let's at least be honest about it.
In other words, quit lying, Republicans. And quit lying, Democrats.
Elected officials, despite swearing to uphold and defend the Constitution, never let that founding document stand in the way of increasing the power of the state.
* I'm not a fan of public adulation of anyone. Some of the people in the crowd look like they are willing to kill and die for Obama. That is unsettling.
If Barry Goldwater, my political hero, were raised from the dead and elected, I would not be mindlessly chanting his name. Politicians, even Obama, are people. Just people.
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