Traditional American Values

We hear a lot these days about Traditional American Values, especially from politicians and the current administration in particular.  Just what are "Traditional American Values"?  Obama's actions give cause to pause and question if he really knows and understands Traditional American Values.

The Declaration of Independence reads in part that "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."  I wonder is Obama has ever even read the entire Declaration of Independence and fully understood its implications.

American Traditional Values are love of God, country, family, and liberty, the freedom to enjoy the individual right to achieve that which you are most capable of achieving.  It is the right to a non-intrusive government.  The Declaration of Independence further reads "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."

You do not grow up in a foreign land under the tutorship of Islam and come here and associate yourself with the likes of Bill Ayres and Jerimah Wright, or walk across the Southern Border and instantly become endowed with the true meaning and understanding of Traditional American Values.  It is a living process that begins very early in life and is instilled through the experience of the true American way of life and its traditions based on the Declaration of Independence and manifested in the Constitution of the United States of America.