I think the correct way to understand Jeremiah Wright, and the way people are reacting to him is not in a racial manner.

This is a man who hates the country.

So the idea that America began as imperfect and now only Obama can make it perfect — well, not only him, but his candidacy is about that. He said at the beginning of his speech, he said we need to perfect the union because it was left imperfect at the time of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and he said that we all want to move in the same direction. Well, we don’t want to move in the same direction.

Of course we want to move in the same direction of prosperity and health.

The debate that liberals and conservatives have had over what kind of country we want to be has never changed, it’s just how do we get there. Obama laid it out pretty well today how he wants to get there. He is an ultimate liberal. He sees soup line America in every group of people. At the same time he’s talking about ending the racial divide, he still shows us how Democrats see people: The white woman who can’t bust the glass ceiling, the black this, the Hispanic immigrant there. He sees everybody as members of groups, while decrying victimology, basically promoted it in his speech today.

In my estimation, at least the way I heard it, the real interesting part of the speech to me was how this relates to his character and judgment, particularly in dealing with Reverend Wright. I don’t think he answered that question for a lot of people.

Despite the speech being flowery and fabulous and well delivered and so forth, if you’ve watched any TV commentators since the speech ended, you’ve heard that they are all gushing about it, so it is what it is, as far as that’s concerned. The superdelegates in the Democrat Party are going to have to ask themselves, do they want this presidential campaign to be about race?

Is that what they want the Democrat Party presidential campaign to be about? But what was interesting here was that we did get a little bit more insight into his views, which are pretty filled up with class envy and class warfare and a great misunderstanding of basic economics.

But this business we all want to move in the same direction. Yeah, we all want freedom, we all want liberty, although I don’t hear Democrats talk about it too much.

We all want opportunity for our kids. We all want a growing, expanding economy. The argument we have is how do you get there? The argument is very simply put, or the distinguishing aspects of the argument are:

Liberals want to use government based on a contempt and lack of understanding and confidence that average Americans can overcome things in life. Conservatives, like us, believe that if you just trust people, the inherent goodness and decency of people will come to the forefront if you don’t tamper with their freedom, if you don’t tamper with their liberty, if you understand what our Founding Fathers understood, that our freedom and liberty comes from our Maker, from our Creator. We are all endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, among them life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness.

My view of the Democrat Party today is that those are under assault. We know that life is under assault. We know that liberty is under assault. Don’t make me give you all the examples. This is something that’s not even arguable. We’re talking about banning certain kind of lightbulbs; talking about how you can use your property, all these examples — liberty is under assault at the leadership level of the Democrat Party. Pursuit of happiness, they’re not happy; they don’t want anybody to be happy. They are miserable. They look out across America and they see misery and they enjoy it. These are people who are happily miserable. So all three of the basic tenets of our founding documents, the Declaration of Independence, are under assault by the American left today.

Now, how can they say we all want to move in the same direction when that is where they — I don’t care if it’s Hillary, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Al Gore, they are all the same. Life is under attack; liberty is under attack, ’cause they don’t trust people with liberty. They don’t trust voters to do the right thing. They don’t trust you to drive the right car. They don’t trust you to have the right kind of anything.

And of course the pursuit of happiness, there’s an all-out assault on happiness. Nobody has a right to be happy in America today when there’s so much misery elsewhere. We, on the other hand, believe that liberty is part of our creation, freedom, natural yearning to be free is part of our creation, is what has distinguished this country in 220 years, from all other populations of human beings in the history of this planet. Our DNA is no different than anybody else’s on the planet, but how is it that we have come to be this awesome and for-good superpower? How has it happened? It has happened because of our founding documents; it has happened because of an inherent understanding that our freedom and ambition, who we are as human beings, is part of our creation.

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