self-evident

[mellowtigger]

mai_neh often posts depressing stories. Important, valuable, educational.... and depressing. Like today's story, "Bush admits he approved White House meetings on torture".

I realize that the Declaration Of Independence doesn't really have any legal importance as enforceable law. I measure a lot of our current faux-President's actions against one sentence of it though. I consider it the most significant sentence of the whole document, and an indictment of the failures of Double-Yuh as the worst president in this country's history.

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.

Unalienable?  Did they ever get that wrong, eh?  This president did alienate these rights, dragging them away from the concept of Creator-gifts and into the realm of human legal bickering.  Destroyer of freedom.  Corrupter of divine gifts (if you believe in that sort of thing).

Worst.  President.  Ever.

Plainly evident.