I fully understand that liberals will fight this message tooth and nail.  Regrettably, I fully expect President Obama to fight it.  I hope that I am wrong.  But his message all along has been the system is broken; it’s someone else’s fault; we need to take from them and give it to you; you can’t do it on your own.

Democrats cannot have it both ways.  Or perhaps, more accurately, Republicans must no longer permit them to have it both ways.

This must be the Republicans’ message.  But it should also be President Obama’s message.  It should be the Democrats’ message.  If it is, then we will know that, like so many Americans, they believe in our system of government, in the economic foundations that have provided our prosperity, and in the limitless genius of the American people.

If it is not; if President Obama and liberal Democrats continue to insist that African-Americans somehow manage to be hobbled by the very same system that has elevated him to the highest office in the land; that they cannot establish businesses, create jobs, build wealth, strengthen their families, and educate their children, as so many other Americans have, then we will know all we need to know.  We will know that the Democrats’ attitude towards disadvantaged Americans - and their approach in office - will not be one of facilitating opportunity and unleashing human creativity, but of exploiting human misery, and of crass political maneuvering to obtain a stranglehold over what will be an ever-larger class of dependent people for personal gain.

There is no other interpretation.  Because, at its essence, the message that racism is dead is a message of achievement.  It is a message of progress.  It is a message of hope.  For a man who just vaulted to the Presidency on that very principle, that does not seem too audacious.