Pledge Allegiance to Obama?

Pledge to Barack Obama:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51kAw4OTlA0


Never before has our nation been led in a “pledge” to one man. Our founders feared such a pledge, protected against it through a Constitution, which placed limits on any one man gaining power over the whole. We the people did not appoint a man, but in order to form a more perfect union, ordained a Constitution that placed checks and balances on every man, so that one would not rise up above the rest. The Founders understood what the rule of one man looked like, what a “Sovereign” could and would do with absolute power.

They wrote a declaration of independence not from a nation they were rebelling against, but from a King. Thomas Jefferson did not address the wrongs of the parliament of England as the reason for the decision of the colonies to reject the rule of Great Britain, but instead he wrote of the wrong one man had done to the people of the colonies.

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated
injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an
absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a
candid world. Declaration of Independence

Jefferson pointed out these facts and addressed the ‘injuries and usurpations” carried out by the King of Great Britain. Jefferson used the pronoun HE over and over again in the body of the Declaration, revealing the Founders deep dissatisfaction with the rule of one man. They formed separate and independent states, in order to ensure that no one man, nor one group of men had absolute power over the whole.

Yet, the social aristocracy of our day seems to have determined that we need to once again fall under the rule of one man. We are now called on to pledge allegiance to President Barack Obama. Never before in the HISTROY of the UNITED STATES have we sworn allegiance to any one man, as a nation. Yes, we have supported our presidents in times of war, in times of national crisis, and in times of national service, but never before has a man, a president been place on such a pedestal of political dominance and superiority as to deserve a pledge.

Our Founders understood that power corrupts, and placed a balance of power upon all branches of the government, understanding that absolute tyranny can come in many shapes and sizes. They understood far better than we do the ills of one-man rule. They also knew that no one man is of any greater value than any other. An idea that was foreign in their day yet seems to be lost up our own, that “All men are created equal.” President Obama should reject the idea of national allegiance to him.

This new pledge, created by those in Hollywood, divides our national loyalty; it is based upon individual choice and opinion. It calls on all of us to pledge to stand up for something we believe in, but would never allow those of us with differing beliefs to add our list of concerns to theirs. Their opinions are somehow more enlightened, but even those are subjugated to the overall allegiance to one man.

Our nation already has a pledge that brings unity to our people, without raising a single man above the nation as a whole. It allows for differences but does not highlight those differences as values higher than those set forth by our Founders. It is singular in focus, to bring allegiance to an ideal not a person. An ideal founded upon the principle that the people form the most perfect union, and have certain rights that no one can take from them; the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That pledge is:

I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the
Republic for which it stands. One Nation, under God, indivisible, with
liberty and justice for all.

Pledge what you like, join the social aristocracy of Hollywood in bringing about “a change we can believe in” by swearing allegiance to a man, but I will choose the “change” our nation was built upon 200 years ago. I will align myself with the people who form our republic, so “that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”