2012 Presidential Election: Restoring American Standards in November

2012 Presidential Election is the opportunity to restore our standards: Bengazi the Ultimate Proof that Obama Standards Are Substandard for Americans

Frankly, I find Mr. Obama's behavior and treatment of the Bengahzi affair as heartless and offensive. I do not understand how a President--of all people--could blow off security for his own;  say the loss of dutiful patriotic Americans is "not optimal"; then lie over and over about what anyone who can read or see knows is a cover up of negligence and subsequent insensitivity. Obama seems beyond either remorse or empathy.  As Brett Baer said, "It is chilling." I would add sickening.

I understand the feelings of the wife of one of those lost in the attack who doesn't want her husband's untimely death politicized. I feel for her. I hope she understands that her loss represents a loss for all of us; The truth is, it was our loss. The situation exposes some serious misunderstandings between Obama and Americans. We want answers.  We want to do better. Find better. We want to remove the problems.  It cannot ever occur again, or we--not terrorists--will be our own worst enemy.

The problem is partly that we voted in someone who I think most who voted for him thought had an understanding of American social norms and mores. Calling your political foe "a murderer," and telling a group of elementary school children that he is "full of $%*&;!!" is beyond the pale. I can’t imagine what he is thinking: Any respectable person would set a better example.

I am confident that even if the majority of Americans do not know much about their own country's formation and Constitution, they DO understand common decency and care for human beings. 

There is still hope in the world. Good people abound. After a political drought, one of them, a rather unpretentious, but highly successful man, will take office in January.  I'm confident, expecting he will be imperfect, but caring, that we will be much safer and deaths of Americans will not be chillingly swept aside as "not optimal."

He will rise to the occasion. We must rise to the occasion too, and together we will be partners, imperfect, but looking for ways to make the world better because America is better.

Thus, I have a plea for Romney—and all future Presidents:  Expand your care, honesty, and drive to these areas, and we will do likewise:

1.       First, protect us by protesting the Constitution: Please do not make executive orders that legislate—no matter how tempting or how good the motive appears. Take your plea for good legislation directly to the people who will back you in Congress. You can honor this request first, by removing all of Obama’s Executive Orders and sending anything worthy (?) to Congress to address.

2.       Next, understand Supreme Court (SCOTUS) Opinions and make yourself very familiar with their rulings:  The Obamacare ruling is a good case in point and place to start. It DID NOT uphold most of the Act. Quite the Contrary, no part has authority to compel private citizens, states or businesses.  Most people don’t know this.  It is, however, upheld as a tax. The Constitution provides for that—and only that part that is a tax—as Roberts affirmed only that much. So, if you are going to do anything to that, make sure agencies and bureaucracies do not overstep their authority here, thinking that since Americans are widely ignorant of the outcome of that SCOTUS case, they will comply with unconstitutional actions. Do likewise for all other SCOTUS Opinions.

3.       Shrink bureaucracies!  Just shrink them. Get rid of unfair, unconstitutional, unyielding, and oppressive policies.

4.       Return to the states what is theirs:    Acknowledge their duty and sovereign right to govern the affairs of their own people in education, social issues, and all areas not specifically enumerated in the Constitution for the Federal government. We will hold you to this one especially, since you have already promised it.

5.       Keep drinking all that milk, we need your backbone: Retract our position in the UN. You can start by making our soil off limits to the UN to inspect ANYTHING. They have no right or authority to decide anything about our affairs. We Americans like sovereignty and we expect you to protect it. We don’t want the UN taking anything from us. If we inspect our own voting polls, so be it. If we do not, so be it. Whatever we do, we will do it together as Americans. That goes for other intruders as well.

6.       Protect our free market system: Back off businesses and return government employees to private sector jobs. Of course free markets are integral to free societies;  We will hold you to this promise too.

The world holds much that is good. We have the opportunity to go forward, learning from the Benghazi debacle, and many poor decisions before it, so the loss of four trusting Americans' lives are not in vain.