Thoughts Aloud

Archive for July 8th, 2010

When taking office, a president must swear the following oath:

“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

This is a direct quote from our Constitution, Article II, Section 1. Note that the prescribed wording does not contain any words suggesting that “ignore” or “violate” might be part of the oath.

In Article II, Section 4, our Constitution goes on to say “The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”

President Obama and Attorney General Holder are clearly guilty of repeated refusals to abide by our Constitution. If this does not rise to the level of “high Crimes and Misdemeanors”, it is hard to imagine what could.

I have already asked my representative in Congress to offer a bill of Impeachment against both of these criminals and I am asking each of you to do the same. Just a simple telephone call. Will this get them impeached? Probably not. But it will let the Congress and the Executive know that increasing numbers of citizens have had enough and want change. Change the government can believe in.

Whenever an opening occurs, I try to talk to people about what is happening to our nation. When I find they are in general agreement with me, I often ask “so, what are you doing about it?”. The most frequent response I get is “Well, what can we do?”.

This got me thinking that I would generate a simple list of things the ordinary guy/gal on the street can do. Once I have such a list, I will then print it on a “card” that I can easily carry about and hand to those I am trying to influence. I am amazed at the things that simply don’t occur to people.

So, I will offer a starter list with the sincere request that anyone who happens on this will help me improve this list until it is something any of us would be proud to hand to others.

My starting liust:

- Communicate with those who represent you – by letter, by email and by telephone. There is no chance they will do as you wish if you don’t tell them.

- Attend any Tea Party within reasonable distance from where you are. You do not need a fancy sign — just be there and be polite.

- Contribute your time and/or money to political candidates who share your point of view. It need not be a large amount of time or money — everything helps.

- Contribute to organizations that work to get the truth out to people. Chose whatever pleases you — I like the Media Research Center and the Heritage Foundation.

- Go to the polls and cast an INFORMED vote. Voting your emotions is never a good idea.

- Consider supporting independents and/or 3rd party candidates. The 2 major parties both tend to put party above country.

- Talk to your family, friends and neighbors. Perhaps offer them a copy of this list?

- If you can’t do all of the above, do whatever you can.