The lesson is: Never try.

Obama says "The same thing that sustains all of you. And that is the belief that in America, change is always possible. That our union may not be perfect, but it is perfectible."

Freepers have a wide variety of unexpected interpretations.

UPDATE - How did I miss this? Commenter Anonymous points out that the preamble of the Constitution endorses making a "more perfect union.

why do Freepers hate America?

Olog-hai knows worshiping God means you never try and improve your society:

Thinking that human institutions can be perfected is a sign of godlessness.

albie just takes issue with Obama pretending to be a normal American:

Dear Obama...Please don’t refer to it as “our”. You belong in kenya. A village there has reported a missing idiot and would welcome your return.

knarf's Bible leads him to believe Obama means he needs to grow up:

The Biblical definition of 'perfect' means, mature.

zero is the epitome of a boy king, no where NEAR mature.

bmwcyle knows what Obama wants:

Police State = Perfection

VeniVidiVici blames Obama for all of Chicago these days:

Looking at Chicago today Obama truly is an absolute failure. Not sure what he thinks he accomplished.

ETL, though, knows Obama meant to destroy Chicago, just like he's gonna do to America:

When you use words like "failure" you have to keep in mind that the commie's goal is to destroy the America we know. ie, "Change", "Fundamental Transformation", "Forward", etc, etc.

"the" also represents Obama's desire to destroy America.

InterceptPoint knows what Marx meant. And, therefore Hitler all liberals.

"That our union may not be perfect, but it is perfectible."

Straight out of Marx I believe.

Perfecting the "union" requires perfecting it's members. Hitler had that goal as well and you know how that worked out. Lenin and Stalin had a similar solution: just kill off those who don't accept your system and slowly but surely the populace and the "union" will be "perfected". Well that didn't work out either.

Humans aren't perfectible. Liberals believe they are and they believe they have the necessary knowledge to guide us to that perfection. In fact they have demonstrated time and again a tragic lack of a basic understanding of human nature and human motivation.

JewishRighter's Glenn Beck Blackboard is a hummin'!

Another spectacularly self-revealing blunder by 0. The perfectibility of society is at the core of such socialist/leftist dogma as the Port Huron Statement, which was a major milestone on the path of the Students for a Democratic Society and similar radical organizations that led to campus violence, draft dodging, anti-war agitation and ultimately, America’s humiliating loss of Vietnam.

One can draw another connecting line on the chart showing Obama’s web of connections with socialist radical ideology, groups and individuals straight from his latest comments and back to Port Huron, SDS and what he really means when he says “we want to fundamentally change the United States”. Another connection? SDS leader, Weather Underground terrorist and Obama pal, Bill Ayers.

BlatherNaut thinks Obama's referring to the coming Obamacare genocide:

Pol Pot's "Year Zero", perhaps?

Zerobama-Nomics has this country well on the road to a peasant economy, and Zerobama "care" will remove those pesky unborn, sick and elderly who dare to clutter up Obama-Topia.

Religion is under direct assault, and under Zero's reign, the US Constitution is being "perfected" (aka ignored).

God help America.

Leep knows Christians hate Utopia:

Another crazy statement that sums up in one sentence who Obama really is.
This is straight out Utopianism.
Not sure how one can claim to be Christian and advocate Utopianism at the same time?

Leep also knows Real Americans hate Utopia:

Oh, and it is anti-American,too. The idea that perfection is possible is a BIG lie. The founders knew this and is why it is the pursuit of happiness and not perfection.

Crucial rages at Obama not loving the staus quo:

Obviously, America isn't good enough for Obama. What a communist narcissist.

Monorprise knows Obama is following in the footsteps of that great evil, Abraham Lincoln:

It’s a sign of insanity. No union among men or their states for that matter can ever be anymore prefect than the members there to.

The only real question is that union mutually beneficial and/or consented to by all parties thereto. On that question there can be no doubt about a union Lincoln resorted to the sword to force together.

No the union among these “united” States is nether perfectible nor consented to.

Sir Napsalot thinks this quote is super damning:

I watched and rewatched the video, then re-read the transcipt.

There is no way those words were ‘taken out of context’.

It is clear Obama told his supporters that our union needs to be ‘perfected’.

I expect this quote to appear in Romney's next add, followed by Romney saying "Seeking perfection is Unamerican, Atheist, Communist, and also secretly means genocide and a police state! Also Bill Ayers and Chicago!!!