MSNBC Melissa Harris-Perry August 12, 2012
governed. >> so if ryan sounded vaguely presidential there, it's because he was channeling one of our greatest presidents, the man who wrote these words. we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights and that among these are life, liberty, and thepursuit of happiness -- that to secure that's rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the gofrmged. yes, ryan was cribbing from our third president, thomas jefferson and our greatest achievemen...