Did you ever consider this thought!

Monday – June 6, 2011

Did you ever consider this thought!

I took last week off, but I was still listening to and watching the news. As I listened to the bad economic outlook, I started to consider a few things. As I listened to the Weiner affair break, I started to consider a few more things.

What I started to consider and what I am asking you to consider this week, as I publish the FORUM, are how can you fix the problems when you don’t believe in what you are being asked to fix?

This is a question and this is something to consider. In my last FORUM dated May 30, Memorial Day, I ended it with this footnote: “Practice the patriotism that we recognize today. Recognize the honor that those practiced to keep you free - and then consider where we go from here!”

I was listening to the President last week address a group of auto workers who are unionized at the Chrysler/Jeep plant in Ohio. The president was pontificating and trying to illustrate with verbal comparisons from one analogy to another describing the economy. Then he said it. “The economy took a big hit, if you got hit by a truck it would take you a while to mend. That’s what has happened to the economy it is going to take sometime to mend” - “There are always going to be bumps on the road to recovery. We’re gonna pass through some rough terrain that even a Wrangler would have a hard time with.”

His comments were met with boo’s! But the words were lost in the moment as the media did their cover up. The words he chose defined the definition of the President. What I am asking you to consider is how can someone fix something, if they don’t believe in what they are being asked to fix?

I just got done listening to Congressman Anthony Weiner defend his actions of sending lewd pictures of himself to a number of woman including a college student whom he has never met, on line. He said he is truly sorry for lying about sending them, because he was embarrassed. He took full responsibility, but did not resign. I don’t have to illustrate the hypocrisy of his comments, because if it were a Republican this particular Congressman would be the first in a long line demanding his resignation from the office that does require an oath. This Congressman would be the first to say how can someone perform in office and do the people’s work, if he is embroiled in such an affair?

In both cases, arrogant and hypocritical men have been asked to fix something that both men do not believe in, because they do not believe in the greatness that they have been elected to uphold and to fix.


If the president believed in restoring America, he would have said only an American made Wrangler can climb the hill that we must, so that we can together repair the lost greatness in our economy and in American Automobile Manufacturing.

If the Congressman really wanted to serve the people, he would have done what a real patriot would have done, if caught in a lie. He would have resigned, because he would have realized that he cannot be trusted to serve the people any longer.

But these are liberal Democrats. The rules don’t apply and they believe in the words: do as I say, don’t do as I do. These are liberal Democrats that believe in peaceful orderly transitions. A transition to what, we can only guess, but what I do know is we must start to consider the question I posed at the beginning of today’s FORUM. How can you fix the problems when you don’t believe in what you are being asked to fix?

Take a moment to consider today’s thought, because I will have more on this tomorrow!

Gregory C. Dildilian
Founder and Executive Director
Pinecone Conservatives

A footnote: It only takes a minute to consider something; it will only take a minute to read tomorrows FORUM!