We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/ah_the_irony.html Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:19:31 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/ah_the_irony.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/ah_the_irony.html Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:14:49 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/ah_the_irony.html#comment-88158 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/ah_the_irony.html#comment-88158 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:53:43 -0600 According to Lincoln, "The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, or cannot do so well for themselves, in their separate and individual capacities."

And there, in one sentence, possibly our greatest President summed up possibly the ideal government.  I'm not sure if our current President quotes this because he is truly and utterly oblivious, or because he is so very arrogant, or just because he is, silently, laughing at all of us.

BTW - are we ever going to get to see that birth certificate?

No.

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