What have I been saying?

Friday –June10, 2011

What have I been saying?

This week I have stressed a particular thought that I believe has gone unnoticed and that many do not realize. The thought I had was: how can you fix the problems when you don’t believe in what you are being asked to fix?

This thought came to me last weekend and it has stuck with me all week long. When you look at the failures of what a seemingly intelligent man the President has had I can only come up with two conclusions. Most of what we have seen in the last two years has either been done on purpose or it has been done out of shear incompetence. Either way the President has failed to provide what is spelled out in the first paragraph of the Constitution: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

How can I say this; our general welfare has not been promoted and the blessings of liberty to our selves and our posterity have been violated! Our domestic tranquility is now in question and justice in our legal system is non existent. When our forefathers opened with the words of “We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union” they did not intend for the progressive liberal to discard the document for an agenda that would change the fabric of America itself.

This week the New York Times broke with a story that 24,000 emails were being released by the State of Alaska. The emails were from when Sarah Palin was Governor. The Times story went on to actively recruit any of their readers who were interested in reading the emails in order to find news worthy stories on Governor Palin while she was in office. In other words the Times are looking for dirt on Sarah Palin.

All the liberal news organizations such as the Times have now violated every ethical standard of news reporting and the responsibility of reporting the news as it happens. The clarion call by the Times of recruiting any one interested in reviewing the emails should be condemned and should be challenged by legitimate news reporting agencies.

Never before in our history has this been done and never before has the news media set their target on one particular private citizen in this way.

I had a conversation with my grocer today. He was appalled at what is being reported on the economic front. He was concerned over the president’s policies and his lack of - in his opinion “appropriate economic polices.” He started to discuss what some of the other candidates are saying and he snickered at the thought of Sarah Palin. I asked why the snicker, his eyebrows raised and he said “you don’t know?” So I questioned him further. His comment was that “she is not qualified to be president, let alone run for president”. I said she was a successful Governor and she doesn’t back down. I asked him, “What has Sarah Palin ever done to you or any other American?” He stopped and thought about it and said nothing. I said now you are right. I continued to discuss how Barack Obama has done more to harm every individual in America and America itself in two short years than Sarah Palin could do in a lifetime. He said “I now understand what you are saying she has done nothing to harm me or even you.”

I went on to tell him about the Times story and he was bothered b y the thought that a News Paper was targeting an individual that has done nothing and who has not even committed a crime. He then said “why go after Palin there is enough on Obama to last a lifetime”. We both laughed; he had to get back to work and I had to buy dinner.

When I ask the question: how can you fix the problems when you don’t believe in what you are being asked to fix? I am speaking about Obama. When I ask the question again and take the word don’t out and put the word do in its place I might be talking about Sarah Palin or anybody else that uses the word liberty and freedom in the same sentence. The President to date has not done that. When I ask the question again I think about the candidates that say we must reduce taxes, reduce the regulations placed on business, reform entitlements and restore America to its former greatness by reducing the footprint of government on our lives, I think of Sarah Palin. When I think about how these thoughts seem trivial to some I think about the greatness in our country that has been lost by this President and his team.

The media never did their due diligence on candidate Obama and anyone who asked them to do it was still ridiculed and labeled an extremist or racist. If the President believed in fixing what needs to be fixed he would have condemned the Times for what they are doing and he would have supported the freedom that gives people like Sarah Palin an opportunity to discuss the issues in the way that she does. The president hasn’t and this is why he doesn’t believe in fixing what he has been asked to fix.

Jefferson said two things:

In a letter to Thomas Seymour in 1807 he wrote: “The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.”

In a letter to William Lambert in 1810 he wrote: “So long as [the principals of our revolution] prevail, we are safe from everything which can assail us from without or within.”

When I read these words I think of one person saying them and another ignoring them. I will let you determine that for yourself and have you come to the conclusion that I have come to and that is she might not be so bad after all.

Gregory C. Dildilian
Founder and Executive Director
Pinecone Conservatives

A footnote: I will choose to support the candidate that has the will and courage to stand up to the press and speak like Jefferson over the candidate that will go along with the press to gain favor. I guess this is what I have been saying all along!