Famous words by a famous wise man: "A Republic, if you can keep it." Benjamin Franklin was the wise elder statesman at the Constitutional Convention of the Second Continental Congress who gave that response when queried by a local Philadelphia woman at the close of the convention.
Yesterday was the 224th anniversary of Franklin's warning. How are we doing at "keeping the Republic?"
In less than a week we commemorated the attacks of 9/11/2001 and celebrated the adoption of the "New Constitution" of 9/17/1787, and yet, when I back away from the "cumbia" moments suggested by President Obama and the media, I am at once alarmed and disgusted.
President Obama, who believes the Constitution is a "negative" document, illustrated yet again that he cares nothing for the Supreme Law of the Land with his Sept. 17, 2011 weekly press release.
Rather than commemorata and celebrate the 224th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution, President Obama touted more socialist programs and irresponsible government spending.
In fact, Obama's Constitution Day press release didn't mention the Constitution AT ALL, let alone celebrate its existence. His words match his actions: those of a traitor to his oath.
Read the dribble yourself here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/09/17/weekly
-address-passing-american-jobs-act
I don't have voter's remorse, but I do have citizen's remorse. We need a President who respects, defends, and honors our nation's founding documents. Perhaps in 2012 our citizenry will vote for a President based on the "content of his/her character," and NOT on the "color" of his/her skin.
Martin Luther King, Jr. must be turning over in his grave in disgust.
We need to dust off our Bibles and Constitutions and remember that our liberties, freedoms, and security come from God, not men like Barack, Harry, and Charlie.
The Preamble to the North Carolina Constitution sums it up better than I ever could:
"We, the people of the State of North Carolina, grateful to Almighty God, the Sovereign Ruler of Nations, for the preservation of the American Union and the existence of our civil, political, and religious liberties, and acknowledging our dependence upon Him for the continuance of those blessings to us and our posterity, do, for the certain security thereof and for the better government of this State, ordain and establish this Constitution."
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