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Posted on 08/04/2011 1:18:48 PM PDT by curth
"It's been a long, tough journey. But we have made some incredible strides together. Yes, we have. But the thing that we all ought to remember is that as much as good as we have done, precisely because the challenges were so daunting, precisely because we we were inheriting so many challenges, that we're not even halfway there yet. When I said 'change we can believe in' I didn't say 'change we can believe in tomorrow.' Not change we can believe in next week. We knew this was going to take time because we've got this big, messy, tough democracy," President Obama said at a campaign fundraiser in Chicago on Wednesday night.
Video by C-Span at http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2011/08/04/obama-blames-democracy-his-failures
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When Jefferson penned the Dec. of Ind., he changed Locke's "Life, Liberty, and Property" to "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of happiness."
There IS NO RIGHT TO PROPERTY.
What you have a "right" to, the government is bound to take steps to ensure you have, or to ensure is protected.
So the "right" to ANY kind of property requires the government to provide it, if you don't have it.
IOWs it's not just capitalism that is the problem it is our very form of government. He hates it.
I disagree. I have the RIGHT to PURSUE ownership of property. Ownership requires the ability to be able to afford the purchase, and the responsibility to pay for any charges resulting from said purchase. What people do NOT have a right to is the public paying for my RIGHT to PURSUE ownership.
The leftists keep saying “Democracy”, but this country was established as a “REPUBLIC”.
A democracy is nothing but MOB RULE on the road to Communism.
Democrats have made the word “democracy” sacrosanct so that the “Democratic Party” will be considered sacrosanct because of its name.
Every day the more he fails the more he sounds like a dictator.
***I have become so furious about how quickly this country is circling the drain,***
Hold on till the next election! People just don’t comprehend that when they elect a dum bass we have to put up with him for at least four years, usless someone shoots him, then we have to put up with the other dum bass that was on the ticket with him.
Hopefully people have learned their lesson for the next 20 years but I wouldn’t bet on it.
I thought that he kept telling us that the people in the Egypt were fighting for democracy and that it was a good thing? But in his mind if we had it, it would be bad and messy. Which is it Mr. President?
BHOAPOS
Actually, you are agreeing.
You have the right to PURSUE property. But the government has no obligation to ensure you get it.
Thank you.
The man is a blame machine. Is there a speech where he hasn’t blamed something or someone? He is pathologically narcissistic.
“The truth may be that this is all a big social experiment run by Harvard to see just how stupid the general public can be.”
Harvard — #3 on the top donators list at $862,604 in 2008. University of California, Stanford, and Columbia also made the list. They want in on the action.
Ronald Reagan turned an all but dead economy right around in the same “big, messy, tough democracy.”
Excellent post.
Just another Mugabe wannabe!
Thank you. I might also point out that while Ronald Reagan was not a lawyer he knew the difference between a democracy and a republic and he knew which one is our form of government.
Honestly, how many poloticians have you heard lately that has called our system a Republic?
That is the crying shame,even the Republicans tout the democracy mantra.
I think the original Life, Liberty and Property statement was changed because slaves were property, and they did not want to appear to endorse slavery. Or so I have read somewhere, sounds logical though.
They missed the boat however since we can never truly own property as long as they can tax it, or condemn it.
I NEVER stated the government was responsible for ensuring possession of anything to anyone.
The owning of property, for the majority of Americans, has never been absolute. There has almost always been ways for those without scruples to take property away from those without the means to fight such theft.
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