Posted: Jan 16, 08 4:22pm
Took a little time and wrote down some things I'd like our next President to say and more importantly do. I don't expect you to read it all. However, why not list some of the things you want to say and how to say it? I'll take the collection of these pearls from you and others and craft a final version for the TBD community. I'll even send a copy to each candidates campaign office.
Get those Peggy Noonan figures flying...
Presidential Inaugural address Jan 20th, 2009
My Fellow Americans,
We come together to celebrate another ceremonial rite of passage! We have embraced the gifts, tools of liberty and pass the torch of leadership to a new President. We The People renew our hope in our collective judgment.
Humbled by the faith you have in placed me, I am energized, inspired and compelled to breathe actions into this new day of hope.
However, I am but one (man/woman) and the challenges we face will require the energy, commitment and talents from all of us. Let us walk together to seize the day and secure our children's future.
Our Republic has seen, felt and endured all manner of internal and external challenges. Generations that preceded us have never faltered . A new set of challenges faces this generation. Our founders, and those that preceded us expect us to meet this challenge to keep the dream called America alive for our children, as they did for us. Let us walk together as they did.
We come to this point in history with unprecedented pressures and unique obstacles; however we also come to the battle with unprecedented abilities, tools and gifts.
We face the challenge of Islamic Extremists. Radicals have hijacked the tenets of their faith to send children to kill other children using insane acts of self destruction? They ruthlessly kill their own brothers and sisters to vanquish the call for peace. This hate must be rejected and vanquished. This struggle will require a singular strength of character of peace loving people throughout the world. Islamic people throughout the Middle East and good people of all faiths throughout the world must reject what divid us and embrace the greater truth,...the love for our children and their future.
Love and Peace are the tenets of all people; people of faith and those who simply have love in their hearts must reject this attempt to turn brother against brother. Let us walk together to earn a collective peace.
In this struggle for peaceful coexistence we must use the power granted us with increased discretion and accuracy. We can ill afford to fire before we take aim at the heart of the true enemy. The true enemies of peace are the advocates of hate; personified by Osama Bin Laden and all those who subscribe to his philosophy of intolerance. The root of this disease called Islamic Extremism is the disenfranchisement of a vibrant and proud people. Islamic leaders must look in the mirror and ask; is the genesis of this problem the absence of alternative hopes, dreams and opportunities of your youth. I call on you to reject the evil doers who have infiltrated your houses of worship to spew vile and manipulate the words of your prophet and prey on your people.
This President and the American people promise to the world that we will remain engaged in this battle, but we also promise to improve our aim and better execute our missions. Our efforts to assist the world to eradicate the merchants of hate will be executed with increased accuracy, a new strategy and forging new alliances with like-minded people of other nations. We will re-energize our long standing relationship with allies and walk together to expose, reject, and defeat the merchants of hate.
For the past six years we have attempted, (with goodness in our heart and at the cost of 5,000 U.S. lives, countless other precious souls and one trillion dollars), to partner with the Iraqi people to allow them to breath the air of liberty. Only the Iraqi's have power to take the next step. We walk together but the lead in this walk must transition to those who have the most at stake.
Regardless, of the current state of affairs and any mistakes we have made, our intention has always been a mission of honor. Selflessly motivated our goal remains the same…”to allow the Iraqi’s to determine for themselves what nation and what manner of governance their children will inherit”. The time has come to pass the torch of destiny to the Iraqi’s. The nation with such rich heritage has the talent, assets and call of their own history to seize this challenge and opportunity as their own for their own.
However, we owe the Iraqi people the opportunity to pursue their destiny with minimal interference from outside forces (including that of our own).
***It will be the policy of this President that from today until a time of the Iraqi’s choosing, our forces will redeploy to the perimeter of the nation of Iraq. We will bring control to Iraq’s borders and keep additional external outside forces from entering the nation to contaminate the integrity of the process while this nation’s seeks to build its new day. We will also work with the Iraqi government to assist in the disposal or deportation of outsiders already in the nation by lending air support and other non-ground force assistance.
There are those who argue that our involvement in Iraq and elsewhere is motivated by our need for a stable Oil market. Our nation has a vibrant economy and petroleum plays a big role in our econmic model. Oil is a finite commodity with a growing list of world wide consumers. This creates a strategic, economic and environmental challenge for the US and the world. America's ingenuity is the true mainstay of our economic prowess and we need to inspire our creative business leaders, our collective resourcefulness, and set our sails in a new direction.
***It will be the policy of this President to advance legislation, direct funding, and adjust tax mechanisms to inspire the collective genius of American enterprise to create sufficient alternatives to oil-based fuels by 2025 with steady progress in that direction from day one.
Speaking of border security… The true stake holders of America, (its legal citizenry) have waited too long and been over promised and under delivered too many times the basic fulfillment of border integrity by this government. Especially during a time of war with terrorists our nation deserves an unmitigated and unencumbered process for TRUE BORDER SECURITY and control over other PORTS of ENTRY. We must know who is entering this nation and it is well within our rights to erect any structure, deploy any resource and fulfill our responsibilities.
***It will be the policy of this President to assert the necessary means to bring true and lasting Border Security to this nation by years end. We also have allowed the tenets of our own fundamental laws to be violated with reckless abandon by employers who not only flagrantly violate employment laws, but also subjugate an entire class of people to impoverishment and artificially depress US workers wages. For employers seeking additional access to legal workers, you will find a friend in this President, for employers seeking additional resources to assist in accurate identification in the hiring process you will find additional resources at your disposal, for those of you who wish to continue with the status quo, you will find an engaged and assertive executive branch who will hold you accountable for your actions.
We also must recognize the blessings of a nation that is so rich in opportunity, so filled with the air of liberty, and so blessed in diversity that millions of other souls wish to join the dream that is America. This wave of would-be American enthusiasts continues to be a necessary ingredient to the soup that is the American Melting Pot of Freedom. Millions seek legal access to this nation and our process has been overwhelmed by those seeking to breathe liberties air. Those seeking legal access to American dream will find an advocate and an assertive ally in streamlining the legal process for those already in line, and for those willing to join the line in the proper order.
***This President will work with the Congress to erect a process that is both prudent, thorough and yet efficient. We can and must streamline the timeline for those seeking to join America and have entered through our front door. We will welcome you with open arms with a process that respects your dignity. I have a personal message and appeal to our new legal immigrants; we want and need to add your special uniqueness to our nation, we also want you to embrace the culture and tenets of America. When you accelerate your acclimation of American language, culture, and values you will accelerate America’s embracement of your unique gifts of culture, heritage and values. This is the secret sauce of the American Melting Pot, this mix of flavors that augment and enhance each other.
***one matter of housekeeping, my first official act is to grant a Presidential Pardon for Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Campean...today!
As all Americans engage in the challenges of this age, we must be mindful of the enemy within. We must also be mindful of tending to our own house to insure that the intolerance of hate and destruction in the Middle East is not transported to the United States. We as a people must reject racism, religious intolerance and only embrace merit based decision making.
There is another enemy to this nation, one more dangerous than the extremists. A force that is a plague on this Democratic Republic. We have a cancer eating away at liberty's soul. Our republic is under siege by an avalanche of special interests who have unfairly earned disproportionate access and attention of our legislators, administrators and other government officials. The true stake holders of this Republic, the American people, have had their messages drowned out by the moneyed, the incorporated and the internationalists. These singular agenda riddled merchants of manipulation are a cancer on the republic. There is no greater plague endangering our children’s inheritance than the earmarks stamped as liabilities on their future earnings.
***It will be the policy of this President to veto any bill that is laden with inappropriate spending directed to line items not in the national interest. I will use the power of the FTC to oversee and where necessary restore true market forces to our industries. Until the Congress presents bills that are uncontaminated by these artificial intrusions to the federal treasury my pen will stay in my pocket. I promise you, the American Tax Payer, you have elected a President with total respect for your hard-earned income and tax revenues you pay to sustain this nation. I call on the congress to cast out the politics of disproportional representation and clean their own houses. Until that time, I can only promise that the dirty laundry of politics as usual will not pass to the White House nor will an ill laundered bill be signed. It will be this Presidents policy and more importantly its actions to conduct business in the most open, transparent and honest manner in our history. I cannot promise that nothing will go wrong, but I promise swift and immediate action when wrong is found and I promise to fill the air in the white house with the breath of honesty, integrity, and honor. We will promote an agenda of doing what’s right even when no one is looking.
Speaking of looking...I challenge all of the media to re-examine, re-invigorate and re-engaged their role as the publics watch dog. I encourage you to approach your awesome responsibilities with agenda free objectivity…you are a key component to this nations of liberty and help shape the degree our Republic is enjoyed by all citizens.
Finally I say to you the “sell out of American interest” is over. Our nation will remain a significant player in international affairs and trade. However, we are going to review the terms and dynamics of commerce, alliances and treaties to insure all of our relationships are based on mutually beneficial commerce. A new day of integrity has dawned and the dream that is America has re-awoken and the benefactor of this awakening is the world.
God (Big G) Bless America.
