Once again David Horowitz boils down the rhetoric and gives the 'dumbed down' version (Ha! Ted Turner) of the left reaction to President Bush's inauguration speech...Hence, "the best hope for peace in our world, is the expansion of freedom in all the world," which is the line from the President's speech the White House is highlighting above all others.
...Thus encouraging the Muslim world, and particularly the Arab Muslim world, which is the heart of the global terrorist threat -- to adopt democratic ways and to shine the light of liberty into its culture of medieval darkness is a pragmatic necessity for the future security of the civilized world. That is the reality behind the President's address. Only people in serious denial can be blind to this fact. Only liberals.
The president sounded a clarion call for freedom and liberals carped. That was their virtually universal response to an inaugural that ranks among the most inspirational speeches ever devlivered by an American president.
The totatitarian Left -- the Left that calls itself progressive and identifies its totalitarian goals with the seductive phrase "social justice" -- hated the speech (naturally), along the man who gave it.
... the people in Iran understood what our president was saying...and they cheered - stayed up late in fact to listen to what he had to say...
...but not our progressives...oh no...
Horowitz captured it: The torch of freedom has passed, as President Kennedy said in his own summons to his countrymen to stand up for what is right. But it has passed not to a nation united, as Kennedy fervently wished, but to the conservative vanguard that still takes the Founding spirit of the nation seriously, still rings its Liberty Bell, and is prepared to stay the course of the mission that inspired its birth.
You see, it isn't about abandoning everything this nation was founded on and foregoing every thoughtfully crafted paragraph of a Constitution so unique in its formation...this isn't something that, when you reach a certain age or a point in time you say to yourself "There, mission accomplished, now on to the next project!"
This precious thing we call freedom is a living, breathing work of love - not just for ourselves but for all those that will come behind us...it is evergreen...and if we dare abandon it or take it for granted...woe be unto us!
Our enemies are watching...and waiting for any opportunity to push and pull us back into the darkness...we must be ever vigilant to keep the light of freedom burning ever so brightly...that was the vision and dream of our founding fathers...and it reverberates ever so loudly in our President, George W. Bush...
DR
