Insightful View Of President Obama

January 21st, 2009 categories: Rants & Riffs

Hugh Hewitt has a very insightful view of the significance Barack Obama’s inauguration as President. Note that Hewitt would be considered a conservative by most.

“Though many will grade the new president’s rhetoric, and attempt to glean from it some guide to the term ahead, the significance of the speech has very little to do with its particular giver or its particular content. It’s greatest significance is rather that it marks the completion of the repair of the Constitution which had been flawed in its framing because of its departure from the Declaration that preceded it all those years ago.

The Constitution was flawed because it had to be to give birth to the Union. The repair of that flaw was begun with Lincoln’s election and the worst of the pain required by the repair was endured in the Civil War, though the suffering of blacks would continue through the long years of Jim Crow and of course even after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.”

God bless America and Barack Obama!

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