Errrr, what?

Via The Hill:

… Obama, the nation’s first black president, spoke in deeply personal terms of how civil and voting rights protections — as well as government assistance programs — had paved the way for his own successes. And he blasted those critical of the role of the government in “broadening prosperity for all those who strived for it.” […]

Obama did not unveil any new policy proposals, but argued more broadly for his vision of the role of government.

“We are here today because we know we cannot be complacent, for history travels not only forwards, history can travel backwards,” Obama said. “History can travel sideways. And securing the gains this country has made requires the vigilance of its citizens. Our rights, our freedoms — they are not given. They must be won. They must be nurtured through struggle and discipline and persistence and faith.”