The President's Speech

I hope that all of us can find the tolerance in our hearts and the common sense in our heads to hear and allow the President's speech to school children. The President will not be indoctrinating anything other than telling children that they can succeed and will succeed if they set goals for themselves. I don't want to offend people, but the majority of the people that I see on my facebook that are opposing the President's speech are the very people that could have used a message like this when we were in school. Maybe then they would have learned to be smart enough to use some common sense and be able to think for themselves.

I hope that all of us will respect the President for his role even though we may not agree with his political agendas or his personal habits. After all, I think most of us would agree that as a community "we believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law. We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul—We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things." (Joseph Smith)

When I was a kid I asked my casually republican father what he thought of Bill Clinton. My dad sad that he didn't agree with the things that Bill Clinton may have done or believed in, but respected him as the president anyway. He said he learned that from his mother who cried at the death of President Kennedy even though she didn't vote for him. I just wish people would set aside their false rumors and paranoia and use a little common sense.