“Together, we determined that a modern economy requires railroads and highways to speed travel and commerce; schools and colleges to train our workers,” Obama said. “Together, we discovered that a free market only thrives when there are rules to ensure competition and fair play. Together, we resolved that a great nation must care for the vulnerable, and protect its people from life’s worst hazards and misfortune.”
Obama could not specify what these innovations had to do with the Constitution because there is no such thing. Obama described the ways in which deviation from the spirit of the Founders was, in fact, the most consistent way to follow the constitutional spirit.
Obama adheres to communal ideas, not individual liberty, as enunciated by the Founders.
“But we have always understood that when times change, so must we; that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges; that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action. For the American people can no more meet the demands of today’s world by acting alone than American soldiers could have met the forces of fascism or communism with muskets and militias. No single person can train all the math and science teachers we’ll need to equip our children for the future, or build the roads and networks and research labs that will bring new jobs and businesses to our shores. Now, more than ever, we must do these things together, as one nation, and one people.”
Then again, he presented ten straw men in slightly under 20 minutes. In other words, one logical fallacy every 2 minutes, on average.
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