THE PLEDGE I THINK EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD TAKE
Nov 05
This is a post I came across on a blog, and I couldn’t have said it better. This is exactly how I feel. I may not like who was elected in any given year, but I hold firm on this. I wish we had better candidates to chose from, but we didn’t. The people have spoken, and a majority voted for Bush. Am I happy, no not at all. But I wouldn’t have been any happier if Kerry won either.
What really gets my goat is all the people that just can’t except the outcome,which ever way it went. And I really don’t think that 59,054,087 can really be that dumb. People are running around saying things like the world is going to come to an end. No it won’t people, trust me. We have survived a lot worse in this country than Bush. You want to head of to Canada, by all means do so. Just leave your citizenship and voting rights at the border and have a happy life.
In my humble opinion, this is what it should say under the meaning of dumb.
DUMB: A person, or people that believe in one way of thinking and the rest of the world is stupid if they don’t believe the same. A person, or people that can’t understand that if we all have to have the same beliefs and opinions to be right, what is the purpose of FREEDOM?
I also truly believe that what could contribute to the down fall of this country is the people that are PLEDGING not to support the president. Grow up people, the president is not GOD himself. We will survive, it just may be a very long and hard four years.
The post I mentioned is below. I omitted the name of the president, but the rest is just how the person posted it.
Assume ___ ___ wins in November.… I will refuse to call him traitor, loser, liar, incompetent. He will be my President, my Commander In Chief, the Chief Executive of a great nation, elected by the will of a majority of the electors in these 50 great united States. So even if he does things I disagree with in conducting foreign policy, I will say, “I respectfully disagree with the President’s directions, but I will do my best to express my dissent respectfully and hope that I am mistaken and that he has made the proper decisions after all.”
That’s my pledge. How many of you will take a similar one?
I’ll take it. Right here and right now.
I’ve said all along that we owe respect to the office of the President of the United States even when circumstances arise in which we’re not eager to give the same respect to its current occupant. I know lots of folks are going to disagree with me here, but I think the Clinton impeachment did more to besmirch the Presidency than any other event in modern history. But even at its lowest low, even on the day that William Jefferson Clinton did willfully and deliberately lie under oath, he was still “Mr. President.” He still got the salute, he still got “Hail to the Chief,” he still got four ruffles and flourishes, he still got the respect due the office to which he was elected.
If it should come to pass that ____ ____becomes the 44th President of the United States of America, I’ll give him the respect that his office requires. And if it should come to pass that he makes a decision with which I do not agree, I will say so fervently but respectfully.
I’m happy to make that promise.
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Posted on 11/05/04 at 11:29 AM