There’s even stronger evidence about what he means by a new declaration as noted here.  Pres-elect Obama’s group rights leads him to reject not only the laws of nature that each are endowed with equally, but he crafts a more unequal position based on “group rights.”  In that we are in an ongoing struggle is very much in line with the Foounders, and Lincoln, but Obama’s similarities with them end there–the obvious being Lincoln never called for unity around any principle–the Union would be all slave or all free.  Lincoln’s was one of division to get to unity.

As he writes in The Audacity of Hope, his is “a rejection of absolute
truth, the infallibility of any idea or ideology or theology or ?ism,’
any tyrannical consistency that might lock future generations into a
single, unalterable course….” As Charles Kesler asks:  Is human equality an absolute truth?