President Obama made a telling disclosure the other day.  The occasion was the burial of Sen. Robert Byrd.  But Obama's eulogy covered more than just the Senator's passing.  However briefly, it sounded as well the passing of the American dream, centering as it has on individual freedom.  That vision is finished, if Obama's own conception of this country is realized, since, by this admission, Obama apparently does not think of Americans as individuals in the first place.  The comment came about eight minutes into his speech.  "Like the Constitution he tucked in his pocket," said Obama, "like our nation itself, Robert Byrd possessed that quintessential American quality, and that is a capacity to change, a capacity to learn, a capacity to listen, a capacity to be made more perfect." At first glance this statement seems innocuous enough.  After all, the American spirit has historically been one of practical adaptability, of...(Read Full Post)