Listening to Obama and Clinton question Donald Trump's fitness for president is like hearing Satan accuse Apostles Peter and John of moral weakness--It lacks any hint of credibility. What, if anything, have we learned over the past eight years? Are we yet willing to admit the truth, or shall we continue in stubborn and foolish denial?

In the aftermath of a major national or global crisis, we usually discover a number of warnings that went unnoticed or were ignored.  History testifies that most great civilizations fall, not as a result of external forces alone.  They are first weakened by internal divisions, conflict and flaws within their borders.  External pressures may accelerate their demise, but the autopsies of dead empires invariably reveal numerous internal diseases.   

Most American people recognize that many cultural diseases exist in our country today.  We simply disagree about their root causes or the appropriate course of action that is necessary to repair them.  Every national election brings us to a point where we must make the same determinations. 

Under Barack Obama, America has beheld the most corrupt administration is U.S. history to date.  Lawless executive orders, social divisiveness, gross immorality and reckless military decisions are just the beginning.  The massive economic damage done by the government takeover of America’s health care system has yet to be fully calculated.  Obama desecrated our nation and dishonored our people.  By every objective measurement, the past eight years declare one long career of national policy failure.  Why?  Because the American people got their priorities out of order.  

Contrary to the belief of many, it is not the duty of any U.S. president to provide health care, protect the animals, indulge fraudulent and destructive Climate Change paranoia or to celebrate perversity.  Neither is it the legitimate role of any U.S. president to “level the playing field,” to affirm one race or ethnic group to the exclusion of others or to fundamentally transform the nation.  No, the sole duty of every United States president is to protect the people and their property and to protect and defend our Constitutional rights as articulated in the written document--nothing else.  All Americans suffer when voters neglect this primary purpose. 

We have seen countless Democrat politicians steal the tax dollars and the legal rights of the American people.  As was recently reported, Secretary of State, John Kerry diverted $9 million to a non-profit organization run by his daughter, Vanessa.  The funds were funneled through the State department run Peace Corps, in an apparent effort to conceal the deal. 

We all recognize that there remains no honorable or reasonable justification for supporting Democrat, Hillary Clinton.  Clinton’s long career of crime, corruption, incompetence and mismanagement are widely and well known.  Despite this, the opposition to Donald Trump, while often belligerent, is rarely backed by substantive argument, and the increasingly popular, “A pox on both your houses” is nothing more than a puerile excuse for refusing to expend the effort that good citizenship demands. 

The truth is that only Donald Trump has pledged to fulfill the responsibilities required of a president under the U.S. Constitution.  Some of our neighbors clearly do not like Donald Trump.  That’s fine.  Nobody cares if you don’t like him.  He’s not running to be your pal, chum or buddy--he’s running for president.  But you must vote for him because the actions he proposes are exactly what America needs and that’s what honorable people do.  Your personal desires are irrelevant, as are mine.

We’ve had more than enough reckless experimentation and unintended consequences of ambiguous promises of hope and change.  We’ve elected too many career politicians who use their offices to enrich themselves and neglect their sworn duties.  Americans cannot afford to elect a known career criminal who has no regard for the Constitutional limitations of office she seeks and who demonstrates contempt for the people she promises to serve.   

America’s builders understood the challenges we would face, perhaps better than do we.  Thomas Jefferson warned, “If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed.”  Our culture is awash in information.  Our challenge is to know what information is reliable and what is not.

America needs a drastic course correction, and we need it now.  Donald Trump is the only viable candidate who can deliver that correction and put America back on its proper track.  Let us dispense with the petty personal preferences of style and party loyalty and do what is required of honorable people.