I just had to make a comment!

Thursday-April 28, 2011

I just had to make a comment!

I have taken a few days off to perform some needed improvements to the site and to get some other business out of the way.

That does not mean that I have not been paying attention to many events that have unfolded this week.

The one single event that stands out in my mind is what happened yesterday. Yes, the turning over of the Presidents Birth Certificate. I am not a “birther”, but I have bought into the fact that something fishy just might have taken place. It could have been a simple failure of documentation or some other over site years ago that prevented the administration from making the birth certificate of President Obama public. I find it suspicious that this birth certificate did not exist, then through some bureaucrat in Hawaii, who bent the rules, the birth certificate was found and was released.

I was more interested in trying to convince some people that this is an important deal. There is the Constitution and we do know that the constitution means very little too many folks. In any case, I am glad the president put this to bed. However, I do not think the controversy is over. What leads to the birth of conspiracies is exactly what we have witnessed for nearly two and a half years with regard to this issue. The president let the issue boil over and it was only addressed when his polls took a significant dive in past weeks and with Donald Trump making an issue out of it. There is something inherently wrong and fishy with a guy that lets an issue of this import last for such a long time. The president said yesterda" we don’t have time to waste on these kinds of issues." He could have resolved it long ago, in my humble opinion, so that we didn’t waste time over this debate.

I wrote a few weeks ago that it is not the fact that he wasn’t born here, it is the fact that he let the issue of his birth hang out there for this long. This is what should be addressed now.

As we look for the winners and losers in this issue, I think Trump trumped the president! Some one said to me yesterday that he thought the president gave into the pressure by giving into the bully - the bully being Trump. The person I was talking to said that the "president should never have done what he did by giving into the demands of Trump the Bully." I said the president did exactly that, he gave in, what is so different by giving into Trump or any other bully in the world, this is what he does. This is his character. The only thing different here is that he didn’t offer an apology. This time his apology would have made all the difference in the world.

The other thing we should make note of is that, in the real world, power means everything. In our world, power comes from having wealth and position. In this case, Mr. Trump, who did trump the president, demonstrated that he can in business, and now in politics, buy and sell this president a hundred times over. Don’t think that this doesn’t matter. Mr. Trump has found the President’s weak spot. I believe many other world leaders have also found that same weak spot.

This story is not over. It is just the beginning!

Gregory C. Dildilian
Founder and Executive Director
Pinecone Conservatives

A footnote: HERACLITUS (c. 540 - c. 480 BC) – The Greek philosopher said:
"A man's character is his fate."