John Adams
Posted on 10/30/2011 8:04:59 AM PDT by otisg
Former Republican Speech writer Peggy Noonan has a column in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal entitled ”The Divider vs. the Thinker”—“While Obama readies an ugly campaign, Paul Ryan gives a serious account of what ails America.” Really? What choice does Obama have? That is what you do when you don’t have any legitimate successes.
Without the sub-heading I would have absolutely no idea who or what Ms Noonan was talking about, until I was 2/3rds of the way through the piece. Although, I must admit that the title intrigued me and in it she asked an important question:
”What was the glue?” (that binds us together?)
She then proceeded to set up a “straw man” argument which demonstrated that she has no concept of the Founder’s original view of the Republic and how it should operate: “Federalism” in other words.
Simply put, the glue that bound us together was an individual satisfaction—earned by simultaneously conquering a seemingly endless frontier and the greatest military force on the Planet. The Founders simply continued and expanded their form of government the way it had always been done on the new “clean sheet of paper” called America by compact (sacred contract). The Constitutional story of America actually began in England in 1215 with the Magana Carta. The Mayflower Compact was America’s first government by mutual agreement.
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
when the zer0, ‘messiah’, finishes smoking crack...he starts in to huffin’ glue...
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