"ASK WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY, NOT WHAT YOUR COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU..."JFK
Let there be no mistaking, I have seen and heard JFK alive and in person in the autumn of 1960 in San Diego, California and it was JFK who said, "Ask what you can do for your country, not what can your country can do for you." JFK was a Democrat; he had served as a Naval Officer during World War Two. JFK was the hope for the 60s generation. His belief in personal freedoms, freedom of speech and equal rights for all people of all colors and creeds made him the long-remembered hero of my generation. I was proud to serve under JFK as my Commander in Chief as I had under Dwight D. Isenhower, and eventually, under President Lyndon B. Johnson. Having seen each of these Presidents, plus President Harry S. Truman, also a military veteran, I was one proud American.
Today, America seems to be going down a road that leads far from the Democracy of my generation. As a conservative individual when it involves our Constitution, I am concerned about exactly where all of these entitlement programs are leading; I am concerned about the myriad of ultra-left liberals being appointed as advisors, but not only as advisors, individuals who are writing policy.
This next election in November gives me the hope I believe we will need to make these United States of America a proud and first-class nation once again, a nation that knows our enemy, a nation where political agendas and idealogies do not nudge common sense into a closet where it will scream for attention.
I respect the office of the President of the United States and it is my hope that President Obama will understand that he represents all of the people. Recent communications from his directors have revealed the President has an inordinately unusual interest in the media who lauds his every policy and no room for those who take exception to his policies and appointments. That a major cable news network has been singled out for isolation and has been the subject of what could have been an in-house plan to exclude them from press conferences is a matter that creates more than a little anxiety within the mainstream population of all parties.
"ASK WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY, NOT WHAT YOUR COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU..."JFK
Let there be no mistaking, I have seen and heard JFK alive and in person in the autumn of 1960 in San Diego, California and it was JFK who said, "Ask what you can do for your country, not what can your country can do for you." JFK was a Democrat; he had served as a Naval Officer during World War Two. JFK was the hope for the 60s generation. His belief in personal freedoms, freedom of speech and equal rights for all people of all colors and creeds made him the long-remembered hero of my generation. I was proud to serve under JFK as my Commander in Chief as I had under Dwight D. Isenhower, and eventually, under President Lyndon B. Johnson. Having seen each of these Presidents, plus President Harry S. Truman, also a military veteran, I was one proud American.
Today, America seems to be going down a road that leads far from the Democracy of my generation. As a conservative individual when it involves our Constitution, I am concerned about exactly where all of these entitlement programs are leading; I am concerned about the myriad of ultra-left liberals being appointed as advisors, but not only as advisors, individuals who are writing policy.
This next election in November gives me the hope I believe we will need to make these United States of America a proud and first-class nation once again, a nation that knows our enemy, a nation where political agendas and idealogies do not nudge common sense into a closet where it will scream for attention.
I respect the office of the President of the United States and it is my hope that President Obama will understand that he represents all of the people. Recent communications from his directors have revealed the President has an inordinately unusual interest in the media who lauds his every policy and no room for those who take exception to his policies and appointments. That a major cable news network has been singled out for isolation and has been the subject of what could have been an in-house plan to exclude them from press conferences is a matter that creates more than a little anxiety within the mainstream population of all parties.