`But Everybodys Doing It`

`But Everybody’s Doing It`

Washington DC

When I was a kid and tried to persuade my dear, sweet Mother to give me permission to go somewhere or do something that I knew was wrong,, I would always find myself saying `But, Mom, everybody`s doing it`.

Her answer always came back immediately.

`They are all going to hell too; do you want to go with them? `

In Washington watching the crowds of strangely mesmerized people descend on the city I remember the words of my mother.

`Everybody` might be on the bandwagon, but what my Mother was trying to teach me so long ago was that there are principles, core beliefs and integrity that regardless of what `everybody` might do and saying, do not change.

`Everybody` might be dancing in the streets at the crowing of Barack Hussein Obama who has requested that he be sworn in with his middle name, , but for those, as few as they may be for whom integrity, honesty and character count facts and truth reign larger than rhetoric and promises.

The simple facts will go down in history.

I have met Barack Hussein Obama many, times and have sat through hours of his comments in Congress, but he remains to me as to all thinking people a total and complete enigma.

When have we ever put into such a powerful position, someone about whom we know nearly nothing.

First, unprecedented in American history, the near total collapse of a free and honest press.

When did Journalism and Journalists for whom truth, integrity and honesty are the basis of their craft, completely abandon them all for fawning and wide eyed emptiness.

No investigations, no background checks, no research and instead total and unequivocal and completely unprofessional support.

Second, how could a man be elected the highest office in the land and leader of the world without providing the most basic of requirements, particularly for an office that according to the constitution explicitly requires it – a birth certificate with date, hospital name, and name of the Doctor just like the rest of us?

To date, Barack Hussein Obama has not produced any information other than a `Certificate of Live Birth`, which according to Hawaii law 338 is provided to those born overseas as long as they are registered.

Nothing can change the simple fact all his family members know, that he was born on August 4, 1961 at 7:24PM at the Coast Provincial Government Hospital in Mombasa Kenya.

Further, at a cost of over $800,000 to date in legal fees, his records from Occidental College, Columbia University and Harvard University, all on foreign student scholarships has been sealed.

The only school records available, from the two elementary schools he attended in Indonesia, read quite simple, `citizenship – Indonesia, Religion – moslem. `

Third, and even more concerning, the fact that over half of the over 600 Million Dollars raised for his campaign coming in online with no security or checking whatsoever.

A quick check of the Federal Election Commission listing of campaign donations is nothing less than shocking with unreadable numbers, first names and of thousands of `donations` from the same credit cards, much of it from overseas should puts even the fiercest supporters in shock.

My heart sank when speaking with a high official in the Republican Party and hearing him say `we know it all, but the Press just won’t support us . . . `
`Everybody is doing it? `

What was my mother saying?

She was teaching me that the foundation of integrity is to, regardless of the press of `everybody` and the wave of fawning mindlessness, stands firm on principle.

Particularly as a Christian, to have a man who has promised his first act as President will be to restore Abortion on Demand and complete homosexual rights not to mention a long list of policies that as Christians we cannot even remotely support, the response is simple.

`Everybody is doing it`.

Does that make it right?

`Everybody is doing it`.

Does that mean that we mindlessly accept?

No it doesn’t.

Truth is truth.

Integrity is integrity.

Though by the sheer and overwhelming force of massive paid publicity `everybody` may be hypnotized into mindless subservience, God in His way and in His time in answer to the prayer of the few and those of integrity will bring truth out.

We are called to pray for him as a leader. That is clear.

Barack Hussein Obama may have `won`, but in abandoning integrity he has put himself in a place where only God, who knows all will in His time, and in His way cause truth to reign.

Ken Joseph Jr.