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would be grouped with those who had gone before them, who failed to reach the marks that they had set by their own mouths- the hypocrites.

Somehow, through the misinterpretation and misapplication of the First Amendment (Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof) many people expect that a man or woman who holds Faith high in regard, should now stifle that exercise of faith because of the election to a political office.

It should not be done, nor in many cases could it be done. We elected a whole person, not 2/3 of a man or woman. A person's spirit will sustain them many times when their mind or body may temporarily fail them, especially in time of crisis or pressure.

I argue that people may feign leaving spiritual beliefs behind for the sake of an election but that their views, actions and votes are always going to be colored by that belief system, or that, by definition, they never had a belief system at all.

We want the best for our country. I believe that we all do. What we have to ask is: Do you believe that you have to answer for how you act, and what you do? Does you belief system say so? Some belief systems would say no, and that observers should just rely on the personal integrity of the practitioner. They would have us judge an invisible, spiritual issue with empirical and physical evidence. I cannot be done.

Practitioners of many belief systems are allowed to make it up as they go along- see situational ethics and moral relativism. Other systems teach that opposition to the system must be eradicated. Apologists for those systems (intellectuals only, not practitioners) assure concerned observers that only a small percentage of zealots would harm practitioners of other belief systems, and that intellectual ascension is the answer, completely ignoring the complications that arise from trying to judge a spiritual issue with mind or intellect, similar to problems one might encounter from trying to solve an Algebra problem with a dictionary.

Man is who he is- mind, body and spirit. Take away any one of the three and the man ceases to be a man. A man's belief system, and spiritual path (whatever flavor that may be) is inseparable from that man, and it is reflected in his spirit.

I would conclude that Barak Obama has spiritual issues. He seems to want us to believe that a man can be, and perform, as a two-dimensional subject in a three-dimensional universe. It cannot be so. But in an effort to be homogenous and inclusive, he invites elements, policies conclusions that are lethal to our country, freedoms and way of life.

People may call me an alarmist, but the boy who cried wolf was only wrong the first three times.

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