Presidents and Candidates

Everyone has an opinion on the two presidential candidates and, similarly, everyone has an opinion on the current president.

For a moment, let's put aside party affiliations, right or left leaning, conservative vs liberal labels, etc.

Lets look at, first, our current president.

Most, if not all, have very strong opinions about his performance in office.  Some absolutely are enamored with what he has accomplished while in office - and he has had accomplishments.  Some, on the other hand, believe he has weakened the country and lessened our status as a world power.  He did say he would fundamentally change the United States of America.

Again, some believe he has done good things, others, bad.

Whichever you believe, perhaps the most important thing to do is place his accomplishments alongside the Constitution of The United States of America.

If you look strictly at his work in office there are those who truly believe he has done good - and there's no question that, to many, that is true.  One may or may not believe that since there are many others who truly believe that most of what he has done has been bad for the country in general - and for many individuals specifically.

With the Constitution as a backdrop, however, and if one can be completely objective, a proper conclusion is that he has not done "good."  The primary reasons, if you leave out moral and religious motivations, are that he has consistently neglected to follow the very Constitution he swore to defend and protect.  He has not done so; and this is not due to a lack of familiarity with said Constitution - quite the contrary.  Many (not to be named here) have pointed out that much, if not most, of his actions have violated constitutional mandates, such as assuming powers strictly reserved for congress (and don't even get me started on them), making "law" by fiat - usurping judicial authority (and again, they're a bunch of gems, aren't they?), and acting unilaterally when, as just previously mentioned, the in-place system of checks and balances are ignored.

Now, lets look at the current candidates.

One appears to be a bit of a blowhard who has, by some accounts, a checkered past - notwithstanding the opinions of his children.  He seems to have come late to the conservative party - when the lights are dimming and it's heyday is waning.  (One might surmise this author is less than enamored with the GOP.)  Perhaps his motivations are honorable but it's difficult to tell where he really stands on some of the issues and what he'll be capable of actually doing about those he seems to have more clearly articulated.

The other seems to have a pretty significant amount of baggage with regard to truth, affiliations, kleptomania, George Soros, patriotism, honor, health, narcissism, favors owed, graft taken, need I say more?

Place candidate one's motives alongside the Constitution and one will find at least some adequate measure of harmony.  Perhaps not perfect - and of course there's that bloviating personality.

Let's look for a moment not to the candidate himself but rather to those who support him:
Ben Carson, James Dobson, Alveda King, Mike Huckabee, Herman Cain, Allen West, Franklin Graham.

Not a list of nobodys.  In fact, without exception people of honor, dignity, patriotism, and respect.

Candidate two.  Constitutionally a potential carbon copy of he who shall not be named.

The possibility that this country will continue down a hellish path to a point of no return is virtually assured.

Lord help us...if you think we still are worth helping.  I, for one, would not blame you for abandoning us as a nation.  I certainly don't mean those individuals who love You and follow your commands; You promised to never leave us nor forsake us.  But you famously did remove your hand of blessing from Israel many times when they got way off the track, so to speak.  We too have derailed.

Vote your conscience - but VOTE.  Not to do so is virtually a de facto vote for she who will not be named.