GREAT GIFT OF FREEDOM

Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends - hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism - these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded then is a return to these truths.





A return to these truths??? Who abandoned these truths? Hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism ... When were these abandoned??! How do we return to truths we never left??! It's empty rhetoric. It fills the heart but not the mind. And that is never right. In fact, it is always wrong.




Time and again these men and women struggled and sacrificed and worked till their hands were raw so that we might live a better life. so that we might live a better life.


Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age.


Less measurable but no less profound is a sapping of confidence across our land - a nagging fear that America's decline is inevitable, and that the next generation must lower its sights.


It has not been the path for the faint-hearted - for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame.??


Time and again these men and women struggled and sacrificed and worked till their hands were raw so that we might live a better life. They saw America as bigger than the sum of our individual ambitions; greater than all the differences of birth or wealth or faction
Why is everyone so accepting of this hypocrisy! !?
This is the journey we continue today. We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year. Our capacity remains undiminished. But our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions - that time has surely passed. Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.

NO!
Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.
We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories.

STIRRING LIES.




The spirit of service; a willingness to find meaning in something greater than themselves. And yet, at this moment - a moment that will define a generation - it is precisely this spirit that must inhabit us all. NO. WE HAVE TO GET THE ECONOMY WORKING SO EACH INDIVIDUAL CAN FUCKING PUT FOOD ON HIS FAMILY., THIS IS NO TIME FOR DREAMY RHETORIC YOU FUCKING ARROGANT BASTARD.





And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age. All this we can do. And all this we will do. Transform those colleges out of business. College is a rip off unless you plan to be a doctor, lawyer or engineer.



The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our Gross Domestic Product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on our ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart - not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good




For as much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation relies. It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break, the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate.



To the people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow; to nourish starved bodies and feed hungry minds. And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world's resources without regard to effect.



We pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish? I don't. Who is he talking about. Consume the world's resources without regard to effect. That won't stop. Give up our comforts? Not in a million years.

There is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.

Not true. We all wish there were no war on terror, and no downward period in our economy, no lost income. No. Heavy lifting, drugery, sacrifice . If it's so good for us, how come almost nobody would choose it.

8. This is the price and the promise of citizenship.

This is the source of our confidence - the knowledge that God calls on us to shape an uncertain destiny.

GARBAGE.


Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.



Great gift of freedom?? We just want to have incomes we can depend on, have security and leisure to pursue our interests and accomplishments. Just like anyone. What has that got to do with America. Or God's grace.




7. With eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.


WRONG!

Our eyes are not fixed on the horizon.


Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.


When we were tested we refused to let this journey end?



Who's talking about quitting. What does that MEAN?!



We carried forth that great gift of freedom?? This is the source of our confidence - the knowledge that God calls on us to shape an uncertain destiny. BULL CRAP . I JUST WANT MY JOB BACK, MY HOUSE BACK, MY SAVINGS BACK. WHAT THE FUCK GREAT GIFT OF FREEDOM DO I WANT TO DELIVER TO FUTURE GENERATIONS? YEAH, I'D LIKE MY KIDS TO SUCCEED AND HELP ME WHEN I GET OLD. THAT'S THE GIFT OF FREEDOM.


SOPHOMORIC BULL-CRAP. LIKWE HIS FRIEND LAWRENCE TRIBE, IQ 200.. WITH HIS MORNING AFTER A GREAT DIVIDE IN AMERICA.. POMPOUS RHETORIC.