What the American people hope -– what they deserve -– is for all of us, Democrats and Republicans, to work through our differences; to overcome the numbing weight of our politics. For while the people who sent us here have different backgrounds, different stories, different beliefs, the anxieties they face are the same. The aspirations they hold are shared: a job that pays the bills; a chance to get ahead; most of all, the ability to give their children a better life.

BARACK OBAMA, State of the Union Address, Jan. 27, 2010

“The people who sent us here” (Obama voters) don’t have aspirations of their own. They want you to “share” yours. They want your money to pay their bills, they want you to only be able to work 28 hours a week because your employer can’t afford Obamacare so that they can get ahead because the IRS is hiring full time, and they want you to buy their ne’er-do-well kids an Obamaphone.

We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it’s easy, but when it is hard.

BARACK OBAMA, Nobel Lecture, Dec. 10, 2009

The hardest ideal to uphold? One that’s unconstitutional.

[NOTE: I came across a huge page of Obama quotes, and most of them are vague politi-speak with no real meaning. Yet I find myself drawn to the notion of interpreting those quotes in terms of what he’s actually done for the last 4 years. I think I’ll make this a regular feature with it’s own category until doing so ceases to amuse me. If it becomes boring, let me know and I’ll stop, as I love you Moon Nukers more than I hate Obama.]