Cabo: I agree with many of the sentiments that you express. However, I have two nits to pick in the interest of facts.
You quoted Obama as saying "US Constitution is flawed and the nation still suffers because of that failure".
This quote never happened.
Using Google, I find several posts on Politico.com, facebook and even on Craigslist that TALK about him saying it - but the original quote seems to come from a WorldNetDaily (wnd.com) article from 10/27/2008 talking about a tape made in 2001 at WBEZ-FM in Chicago where Obama discussed the Constitution.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=79225
Unsurprisingly, WorldNEtDaily is described as conservative - as their list of guests that I gleaned from Wikipedia is of a conservative bend. Halfway down the article, they actually start quoting the tape:
Quote:
|
But, the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution, at least as it's been interpreted, and the Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can't do to you. Says what the federal government can't do to you, but doesn't say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf
|
Look very carefully at the quote - "It didn't break free from the ESSENTIAL CONTRAINTS". In other words, Obama is quoted as AGREEING with the contraints as he considers them essential. The quote in your post comes from the first paragraph of the article that is summarizing what they say is on the tape.
Secondly, God is not under attack. Never has been. What IS under attack is the promotion of one religion or branch of religion over another on public grounds and in state-sponsored speech.
I'd like to expand on one of your points about sovereignty. If the rest of the world is so determined to "raid our national resources", they'll find we don't have many left. We don't have many national treasures left either. Quite frankly they're already taxing us and we let them do it as we pay a HUGE portion of the world's defense bill.