President Barack Obama’s inaugural address could easily have been a piece of conventional Left-leaning boilerplate. Instead, he apparently wanted to make the case of his governing vision in the least predictable way possible – namely, by tying it to the favorite weapon of his critics, the United States Constitution.
In the very first sentence of his address, Obama paid tribute to this document, using its continued relevance as a springboard to argue for his agenda.
“Each time we gather to inaugurate a president, we bear witness to the enduring strength of our Constitution,” Obama said. ”We affirm the promise of our democracy. We recall that what binds this nation together is not the colors of our skin or the tenets of our faith or the origins of our names. What makes us exceptional – what makes us American – is our allegiance to an idea, articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”
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