January 20, 2009: Americans Should Be Proud
[New York, January 20, 2009]
On this day, January 20, 2009, the United States of America has taken one giant step in the fulfillment of the principles of our Founding Fathers first declared to each other and to their world over two centuries ago, that they hold the following truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. A nation they knew to be unfinished at the drafting of the Constitution-understood to be unfinished both for the issues left unresolved at its founding, specifically slavery, and those issues that our Founders had not yet conceived but knew would challenge a nation of free citizens-was brought closer to completion this afternoon.
Our Founding Sons wishes to extend our most sincere and heartfelt congratulations to the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama. While we have always been proud to call ourselves Americans, there are moments in our lives when the pride brims a little more than usual. And today we struggle to remember a time when we experienced greater pride at the American Experiment than in our witnessing of the first African American taking the Presidential oath of office a mere forty years since the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and in the capital city of a nation founded under the divisive yolk of slavery. Every patriotic American should be proud of what our nation accomplished at noon EST, January 20, 2009. Our short history of self-proclaimed global declaratives has yet another charge to record: Our Founders meant it when they affirmed in our sacred oath that all men are created equal. And the example first set forth by the father of our nation in his peaceful ceding of power to the next generation of Americans was once again honored on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol. We are a truly fortunate and blessed people to have God continue to shed his grace on thee.
Our country is larger than any government to serve in its hallowed chambers; the Office of the President is of greater import than any man or woman to serve the office-it is that belief that allows for a population divided in its support for political parties and candidates to come together on such days and share in the unifying pride of the quadrennial event of our peaceful transition of the executive seat of government. So while we did not support presidential candidate Barack Obama, nor are we advocates of what we believe to be explicitly socialist remedies for problems facing a free market national economy and way of life as envisioned by our Founders, we pledge our unyielding respect to the Office of President Barack Obama and our very lives in the defense of our system of government as bestowed upon us by our Founding Fathers. We urge our President to continue to honor our Founders’ legacy and preserve our union in the spirit in which it was conceived. Socialist principles applied to the fabric of our unfinished nation would be one giant step backward in an otherwise momentous and forward thinking national moment.
Congratulations, President Obama on your historic personal, professional and patriotic achievement. God bless you, and may God forever bless the United States of America.
…heaven knows we can use some divine intervention right now.
