Obama's Speech - Freedom Opportunity... I know, it sounds crazy

John Podesta said that the president can use such orders to move quickly without waiting for Congress to act, highlighting the extraordinary powers a president can wield beyond signing legislation approved by Congress. Podesta said people should expect Obama to use those powers to reverse many policies of the Bush administration. ACORN is not going to have many roots left once everyone figures out what they're up to. President Obama hasn't disclosed just how close he is to this organization, but it is known they have ties to John Podesta, his transition team chief. The group, along with the Center for Responsible Lending, along with protesting payday loans (quite the hypocrisy) has taken to occupying foreclosed homes that are owned by lower income people. Remember ACORN lobbied so hard to make companies lend subprime mortgages. They claim their acts of trespassing are a form of social protest, protesting the foreclosure of loans on people who can't pay them. Not an ACORN of knowledge in their platform.

Clever idea, I love it!

Bump.

http://www.dailypaul.com/node/80522
A little bit of inspiration ;-)

You gotta know when to hold 'em...

Did anyone isolate the video?

oooohhhh!!!! NOT CRAZY AT ALL!!!! awesome idea!!!!

Think that most of the government-school edu-macated masses will understand what they mean, though? ;)

How great! I can hear it now--we need to post these documents 'cause "our President" says we need to go back to our founding documents. The sweet irony of it all!

This is perfect. Wonderful observation - thank you for posting it.

use Obama's words to help make the Constitution popular -- even known -- again. I think one of the many reasons our movement has been in the doldrums for awhile is because the enemy was so diffuse as well as vast.
Now we have a clear adversary (the whole Obama adminstration.)
No longer is it just combating pretty, pandering phrases too vapid to get a clear shot at; now the Obamaforce must act and become a tangible target. Where they fail to deliver, where they overstep civil liberties, we will be there to point out each and every mis-step.

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Thank you, cicobiologist! we need more of this around here, IMHO ; >

A nun used to say to me "open your mouth and use your speaking tools" ~ lol

Your approach is non-threatening and gets the masses thinking again ... "open your brain and use your thinking tools"

Strike while the iron is hot ... while given the inauguration occasion, they have at the very least, a fleeting interest in these documents.

Perhaps we can bring him back from the dark side.

I know there is still good in vader.

...but in my state they do, and I've been lurking here a long time.

I dunno...Obama talking about "go back to our Founding Documents" and he's all about some "change". Call me suspicious, but I hear "change our founding documents". We will see. Be ready to defend our Republic!

"Ours is the most solemn charge of all: to defend Liberty in this bleak hour lest the very notion that man might best govern himself be scoured from this land and from the conscience of mankind."
Ron Paul, Nov. 5, 2008

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If you have ever read the Constitution, it's a long and often difficult document. There is no "The U.S. Constitution for Dummies" that I know of and grasping what it says is not easy. Will you put this up:

Immediately after they shall be assembled in Consequence of the first Election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three Classes. The Seats of the Senators of the first Class shall be vacated at the Expiration of the second Year, of the second Class at the Expiration of the fourth Year, and the third Class at the Expiration of the sixth Year, so that one third may be chosen every second Year; and if Vacancies happen by Resignation, or otherwise, during the Recess of the Legislature of any State, the Executive thereof may make temporary Appointments until the next Meeting of the Legislature, which shall then fill such Vacancies.

The Declaration of Independence is great, but reading it is also difficult. Reading a couple of the amendments is easy, or maybe putting up the Constitution in bite-size segments would be the best way. Or just a couple of lines: Congress shall make no law... etc.

But, even if you do that, people have other things on their minds, other things to do: the kids need to go to the dentist; basketball practice, the car needs an oil change, the garbage disposal stopped working, American Idol is back on, and some friends are coming over on Saturday - what do we serve them for dinner?

So even if you get somone's attention for a few minutes to read, or listen to someone talking about, the Constitution, their minds are usually elsewhere. This is not diminishing the magnitude of the Constitution; it is that most people just aren't interested in grasping very dense prose, esp when there's a game on.

I will go to HR tomorrow and tell them I will buy the big ones to put up if they let me!

challenging friends/co-workers to memorize the Constitution and the Bill of Rights!

Why not just "pledge" to do it. You know, serve the master, lol.