On Inauguration Day in January a new president will say some words.

On Inauguration Day in January a new president will say some words. Among them will be; “I will preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America.”

I believe that the Bush Administration has twisted those words and inserted “Republican Party” in place of Constitution. What he really meant was preserve, protect and defend the Republican Party. We have endured years of an administration that has taken words like honor, justice and duty and hollowed out the insides of those words. It replaced that void with political cronyism and corruption. The result was political cronyism in all branches of the Federal Government, the degradation of the US Army and Marine Corps, The U S Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, Veterans Services, the Environmental Protection Administration, Homeland Security (“heck of a job Brownie”) and on and on. We now have proof that the torture of prisoners of war was not the work of a few non-coms, but was a policy decision by the White House through the US Department of Justice. And press has yet to understand that the alleged cronyism, gutting and demoralization of the US Department of Justice by the Bush Administration may be a “get out of jail free card” to organized crime in the United States.

We are a nation longing for someone who puts heart and soul back into those important words and brings our nation back to a state of grace in our minds.

We are about to toss away the politics of the past and elect a president who honors words and takes their meaning to heart. I believe that when Barack Obama says those words “I will preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America” he will not dishonor those words and he will not dishonor the United States of America.