Byron York writes:
On this Fourth of July week, Senator Obama will discuss what patriotism means to him and what it requires of all Americans who love this country and want to see it do better.
As alluded to in my headline, I expect that Obama will use the famous John F. Kennedy line, and that he will ? as is typical with him ? pervert it to mean socialism. I fully expect Obama will not remember the very next line in the JFK inaugural address: “My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
Nor do I expect he will mention what Kennedy said at the beginning of his speech:
And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe?the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God. We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution.
Obama and statist politicians in America today dare not remember that we are heir to the belief that the rights of men come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of the Creator God Himself.
