It has been far too long since my last post regarding my run for President. I have been spending considerable time contemplating my Core Values. In a previous post, I wrote about my first Core Value. Here it is again with some subsequent thoughts.
#1 Core Value is Honesty – We do not lie, cheat or steal. We will constantly help each other live up to this standard.
As I read these words today, I still like Honesty, but I don’t like the two sentence definition that follows. It needs more work. I love “We do not lie” and the complexity that exists in that statement. I don’t like “cheat or steal”. Those words are powerful and dirty. They have a sort of repulsive feeling for me. As I imagine myself in the Oval Office in difficult situations, resorting to cheating and stealing seems out of the question. Yet then I think of all the press about election fraud at every election. Is there stealing and cheating? Absolutely. Should it be part of our government? No way. I guess for now, I will leave it in.
The following is my first posting of Core Values #2 and #3.
#2 Core Value is Respect – We …
I am not ready to write the definition as Respect is again very complex. Certainly it is easy to imagine respecting respectable citizens of the USA and of the world. Core Values are always easy in the norm. The problems arise in the exceptions. What do we do when people violate the #1 Core Value? Do we Respect them? What do we do about criminals? What do we do about terrorists? Can we Respect a criminal? We must in certain ways. Can we Respect a terrorist at some level? I believe the answer is “yes.” Even a terrorist is a human being and I believe we need to Respect human life. However, since a terrorist does not Respect our laws, there needs to be a consequence. That is where the next Core Value comes into play.
#3 Core Value is Courage – We will do what is right, not what is easy.
For me, this is what America is all about and therefore what my Administration will be about. I am awed by the Courage of past and present Americans. There are literally millions of examples of courageous people. This gives me great hope. Of course that word “right” in the tricky part. What is right? I think for the next few years, that is what I will be writing about.