by F.M. Luder

Created on: February 07, 2007   Last Updated: March 21, 2007

It is not the duty of the American people to follow their president or their government. On the contrary, it is the duty of the president to protect the constitution and to lead the country in a direction that benefits the citizens. That is the way democracy is designed. When our forefathers penned the constitution of the United States they made absolute sure about a couple of things, one of them was that they set into the architecture as it's very corner stone in fact, that in order for justice and liberty to prevail, the country and it's governmant must be run 'of the people, by the people and for the people'. The second thing they made sure to do was limit the scope and power of the president. In fact when a president swears into office he vows only to do ONE thing, as stated in the constitution. To protect the Constitution of the United States to the best of his ability. A president who has in any way altered or ignored the constitution, would then have broken his oath of office. One who shows contempt, openly, such as George Bush, has not only violated that oath and the trust of the citizens, but has defamed the conerstone of democracy.
That is pretty unforgivable.

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