What Moves the Heart and Stirs the Soul!

I remember as a child in school being taught that our nation was special.  We were taught to take pride in being an American, that the freedoms that was guaranteed to us by our constitution was bought at the high price of the blood of our patriotic forebearers.  It was impressed upon me that some day I might have to defend this country that I so dearly love.  These are the ideals I grew up believing and I believe them just as strongly today.  We live in an age of cynicism and deceit where people are often ridiculed for holding to the ideals that the founding fathers of our great nation held to be "self evident".  It is true that our country does not always govern by the edicts set forth in the constitution.  How could slavery have existed in a nation that held to the notion that "all men are created equal"?  How is it that an eviction order of the Mormons was signed by a governor of Illinois?  This nation is not perfect.  Mistakes have been made and people have been harmed, but far more good has come from this "noble experiment" than ill and we still hold to our ideals.  Ideallic life is not possable when dealing with fallable people, but life without holding to ideals would be a bleak and unbearable existance.

Listening to Obama's speech to the UN this week made my stomach turn.  To the world, he does not speak of the greatness of the nation that allowed him to reach the pinnacle of his career ( president of the nation that he shows nothing but comtempt for).  He tells the world that in the eight months of  his  reign  presidency, change has taken place and that we are a better nation than before.  He must believe that he truly is the messiah of our nation (his arrogance and hubris is palpable, almost an entity unto itself).  Does he truly believe that this nation has only just now come into its greatness and moral direction because he has now taken the stern?  How can he so easily dismiss all those great Americans before him?  If asked, I'm sure he would deny the charges I have just laid out, but how can anyone who pays attention not see him as the liar that he is?  How can anyone support this man?  Unless, of  course, you have the same goal in mind; the same impossible goal of utopia for all at the expense of  individual achievement and personel freedom.  Just remember, my fellow Mormons, that  this is the same promise that Lucifer gave at the great premortal meeting - that none shall be left behind.  I just ask this question:  how important is the Lord's gift of  free agency?  Keep watching and listening to our president, than ask yourself - how much value does Obama give to your freedom?  If you pay attention, I think you just might come to the same conclusions that I have come to.