Tonight I watch John McCain and Barack Obama sit at the same table and have dinner with one another. They were at a fundraiser for the Alfed Smith Foundation (I know nothing of this organization). Each man had a chance to speak and they were both hilarious. They basically roasted themselves, each other, the media and the political process we have all been involved in for the past 18 months. They laughed at one another’s jokes, were sincere in their praise of each other, and they warmly shook hands as it was all over.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cen37qxA7E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SkFjTCscM4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLR3oa30w9Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZXX9Wfl5S0
No other nation in the history of the world has transferred power from one leader to another as peacefully, as seamlessly, as consistently as the United States of America. That is, in the end, the key to our greatness. The principles the Founders established in the Constitution have withstood the test of time; they have weathered civil war, economic despair, foreign attacks, and political divisions. This nation was not established by the will of one man, but upon the dream of many men. Men who understood tyranny, dictatorship, and would never allow their nation, birthed in freedom, to be shackled by any man’s hunger for absolute power. They understood that the right to govern is derived from the people, and established the Constitution, the document that would forever guide the nation, upon that principle:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. The Preamble of the Constitution
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