He posted this today on Facebook:
The Constitution of the United States turns 233 years old today. From the beginning,it was an imperfect document that established a deeply flawed nation. But it set our country on a path of hope and renewal. The Founding Fathers would not recognize the nation or the form of government we have become. By almost any measure, we have made great progress towards a more just, more equitable, and perfect union.
But as we are seeing today, that progress is both perilous and incomplete. For far too long the basic protections of our national charter have not extended equally to all of our fellow citizens. The deep, blood-soaked stain of slavery remains not only far from reconciled but a renewable current of pain, loss, and injustice. Racism, xenophobia, misogyny, have all been, and continue to be, embedded throughout our society.
Now we have as a president just the sort of would-be despot the Founders feared. He is corrupt, impervious to knowledge, lacking empathy, and unserious in performing the basic charges of the office. He has weakened this nation, at home and abroad. There is great suffering and loss because of his failed leadership. And he has been bolstered by a level of cultish political factionalism that those who wrote the Constitution deeply feared.
The march of freedom, begun in Philadelphia, is not assured to continue. But we can also not be fatalistic about its demise. This nation has faced great tests in its past. It has stumbled. It has failed. But it has endured, and more often than not has found a path of positivity and progress. That is the legacy bequeathed to us by the will of countless courageous women and men who refused to let stand the gulf between the promises of the Constitution and the realities of law and governance.
This is our moment to pick up that banner, to once more embrace the best of what the Constitution has to offer and use it to repudiate the defiling of democracy that defines the current age. We must vote, in the face of voter suppressions. We must re-establish the norms of governance, in the face of those who would sow chaos. We must see our injustices with clear eyes and demand solutions of ourselves in the face of those who would hold on to power by distorting the realities of our history through self-serving fables.
The Constitution is but words on a piece of paper. They are powerful words, revolutionary words, hopeful words. But ultimately they derive their meaning from us, the governed, through our votes. I see the dark clouds that loom, but I also believe a brighter day is sitting there beyond the horizon if we have the resolve and determination to make it so.
There's so much wrong with this statement, that I don't even know where to begin. I think his brain is 'imperfect" and "deeply flawed".
Says the journalist who used doctored documents to take down Bush.
Came here to say exactly this. Those darn interwebbers figuring it out.
It was fun watching it happen. I know what kerning is because of this seditious douchenozzle
It was great, wasn’t it.