In Thursday’s edition Susan Estrich had an oped titled “Real change” on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. She doubts that a President McCain or VP Palin would have signed this legislation allowing homosexuals to openly serve in the military. However, she cannot guarantee that. They just might have. Also, if this law is the best thing she can find to brag about concerning this president, she’s grasping at straws.
Instead of bragging about what (little) he’s done “right,” why won’t everybody complain long and loud about what he’s done wrong? Are people afraid to speak up for fear of being labeled “racist”?
Political correctness has been undermining the freedoms and strengths of this country for 50 years. Some student of government observed many years ago that the average life of a democracy is 200 years. We have a republic with a democratic form of government. Ben Franklin told a woman who asked him what form of government the Continental Congress had given them, replied, “A Republic, Ma’am, if you can keep it.” Ever since the War Between the States, the Federal government has usurped more and more of the states’ rights in violation of the Constitution. This includes both Democrat and Republican presidents and Congresses. How much longer our Republic lasts is up to us, the voters, to see that Constitutionally qualified people are elected to serve us in Washington, DC.
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