it lies in the fact that he has what amounts to a Lincolnian view of the US Constitution. Ergo that if there are flaws within our democracy then the constitution provides the means to mend those problems. Armed with that notion, Lincoln took to the hustings and proclaimed that while the Government could not abolish slavery, the Congress did have the authority to limit it's spread as various states entered the union.
And that splendid, Newtonian, well thought out, perfectly logical argument, incremental and sane to a fault was enough to blow the Union sky-high come 1860.
Which brings Humble Elias to Barack Obama's real problem, he does not understand the character of his opponents, he discounts the degradation and corruption of movement conservatism and denies that the same would rather the republic in ruins than for the democrats to succeed.
Normally no one would think twice when a US President democrat or republican came out for the sanctity of private property and freedom of worship, but that was before Obama spoke up in favor of a paltry Muslim "prayer room" in lower Manhattan. Whereupon a corrupt religiously hysterical clique seized on this idiotic notion of a malevolent "Ground Zero Mosque" making dangerous arguments that could easily blow back on their asses in any town across the land.
That is the character of the President's opponents, desperate in a low bestial way to get their hands on his collar at the expense of every liberty they allegedly hold dear.
They can do this because they see no hypocrisy in opposing what they championed last week (namely religious liberty)...because in truth they do not believe in Freedom of Religion as the First Amendment defines it.
When they talk about such matters it is largely as a cover to obscure their true desires to set up a Xian Theocracy among us. Baying after the "Ground Zero Mosque" is simply a tactic in that larger goal.
Crazy?
It is no crazier than thinking another prayer room in Lower Manhattan is a threat to anyone at all...
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