As Andrew Breitbart makes clear in his fantastic new book, Righteous Indignation, the father of the contemporary  left is Saul Alinsky.  Alinsky was an intensely clever fellow with no compunction about exploiting popular sentiment to achieve his ends.  One of his favorite methodologies was to use America's founders to back his own Marxism.  As Breitbart writes, "Alinsky's clever merging of fake founding philosophy with his own Marxism led him to internal contradictions that would have sunk a lesser ego.  While championing 'freedom,' for example - he hated the idea of individual freedom the Founders loved - he [pushed for] 'communal freedom,' which is to say tyranny led by the government."

Obama was raised in the Alinsky tradition, and he speaks with Alinsky's forked tongue.  Thus, for example, Obama opened his speech by stating that Americans have historically "put our faith in free markets and free enterprise as the engine of America's wealth and prosperity … we are rugged individualists, a self-reliant people with a healthy skepticism of too much government."

So far, so good.  But Obama continues: "But there has always been another thread running throughout our history - a belief that we are all connected; and that there are some things we can only do together, as a nation."  This is un-American, and it is a lie.  American unity doesn't occur in opposition to free markets, but in defense of them.