Preserve, Protect and Defend...Yeah, Right

The following is an analysis of Bush's inaugural address from today, Jan 20, 2005.

We're in trouble by the fourth sentence:

At this second gathering, our duties are defined not by the words I use, but by the history we have seen together.

Silly me...I thought the duties of government were defined by the Constitution.

There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment and expose the pretensions of tyrants and reward the hopes of the decent and tolerant. And that is the force of human freedom.

Uh, George, if in your round-about fashion you are talking about Islamo-fascists here, I've got some bad news. They are many things, but jealous of our way of life is NOT one of them. They don't hate us because we are "free". They hate us because of who they perceive us to be.

We are led, by events and common sense, to one conclusion: The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands.

Wrong again. The survival of liberty in our land depends on a return to limited government as prescribed in the Constitution.

From the day of our founding, we have proclaimed that every man and woman on this Earth has rights, and dignity and matchless value because they bear the image of the maker of heaven and Earth.

Not sure which Founding Document that's from. I've never seen it before.

So it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.

Care to show me the Constitutional authorization for this one?

My most solemn duty is to protect this nation and its people from further attacks and emerging threats.

I missed it again. I always thought the President's most solemn duty was to presrve, protect and defend the Constitution, kind of like it says in the oath of office.

OK, I'm bored. The rest of the is a bunch of not-so-veiled threats that everybody needs to do what we say or else 1) we're gonna cut off our money flow to you, or 2) we're going to bomb the crap out of you.
We just need one big happy New World Order!
Now on to the domestic agenda.

In America's ideal of freedom, citizens find the dignity and security of economic independence, instead of laboring on the edge of subsistence. This is the broader definition of liberty that motivated the Homestead Act, the Social Security Act and the GI Bill of Rights. And now we will extend this vision by reforming great institutions to serve the needs of our time.

America's ideal of freedom is defined by socialist programs! I'm becoming nauseated.

To give every American a stake in the promise and future of our country, we will bring the highest standards to our schools and build an ownership society.

Oh good, more government intervention in our schools. Definately the way to fix them is more of what destroyed them in the first place.

We will widen the ownership of homes and businesses, retirement savings and health insurance – preparing our people for the challenges of life in a free society.

More half-baked economic theories! I can't wait.

That edifice of character is built in families, supported by communities with standards, and sustained in our national life by the truths of Sinai, the Sermon on the Mount, the words of the Koran and the varied faiths of our people.

Ah yes, Globalist George exposes his non-Christian self.

In America's ideal of freedom, the exercise of rights is ennobled by service and mercy and a heart for the weak. Liberty for all does not mean independence from one another. Our nation relies on men and women who look after a neighbor and surround the lost with love.

By choice, not by government mandate and coercion, moron!

We have confidence because freedom is the permanent hope of mankind, the hunger in dark places, the longing of the soul.

And all this time I thought Jesus was the permanent hope of mankind.

Its going to be a long 4 years kids.