Hmmmm

I have never claimed to be a political genius. And to be honest I am probably not as informed as I really should be. But I received an email this morning talking about whether our President is in fact an American citizen or not. I don't know if it is true or accurate but if it is then there has been some major smoke screens going on in our government systems. (*****Update**** I have since discovered that the email was not entirely accurate but still have doubts****) Makes me wonder sometimes. And I am beginning to think that we as the American people decided a while back to be uninvolved and that is now biting us in the butt. I have no concrete plan of action to get us back on track. But I do think ALOT of prayer is in order. And in case I haven't made myself clear........I LOVE AMERICA!!!! And it ticks me off when other people who are privilidged to live in this great country bash it, talk negatively about or attempt to change it into something that it was never intended to be.

If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his own work, instead of sitting idle to envy the luck of others. He must face life with resolute courage, win victory if he can, and accept defeat if he must, without seeking to place on his fellow man a responsibility which is not theirs.
- President Theodore Roosevelt
Review of Reviews
January 1897

To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.
- President Theodore Roosevelt
The Outlook
December 21, 1895

The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight
- President Theodore Roosevelt

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.
This is just as true of the man who puts “native” before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.
But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.
The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English- Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian- Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic.
The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American.
- President Theodore Roosevelt
Addressing the Knights of Columbus in New York City
12 October 1915

It hit me this morning that God loves all people and that he desires that there be unity IN CHRIST. Unity in anything besides Christ will still breed dissension and prejudice of all kinds. Because everyone is still looking out for their own best intrests not the will of God. Our country was founded on Godly principles and I would say to those that would take those away....." Go back to wherever you came from and live by the principles you hold to so strongly and leave us Americans alone! For I will fight to keep the country I love from being invaded and preyed upon by those who would seek to destroy it."