Get involved, Leave America better than you found it.

As Winston Churchill said "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts", the courage of all American people to continue to build a better America and government is the only thing that counts and is the only thing that will help us to leave a better America to our grandchildren and their grandchildren.

in one hand, we should be able to recognize that after all what our country went through; since the native American, the recovery on the new world, the colonialism, the slavery, the revolution, the united states, the civil war,... America situation has always evolved into a better situation through a lot of sacrifices, but also through a lot of participation of American people. Through these sacrifices and participation, we inherited a lot; the constitution, the Independence, the United States, a form of government, the list goes on. But this success should not be seen as a final, a masterpiece, a perfect and complete achievement. instead, it was a beginning of a long journey that the founding fathers started and the journey was made to be continued to ensure a continuity.

On the other hand, It is true that our system has a lot of issues throughout the journey. A multitude of people did not survive the journey an many are still struggling with different forms of America self-inflicted wounds. This is the same for our system of government that has a lot of imperfections. But, this is not fatal. It is not perfect and makes it perfect will not be final. We still have a lot of issues that need to be addressed, but we should always remember that our active participation is the only solution to those issues. We may have a rigged system, corrupted politicians, and more, but I see these as a proof that we, American people still have a journey.

I am pretty positive that we the participation and active involvement of the majority of us will continue to contribute to leaving America better than we inherited it.

Blog 3

This is to add some critics/ comments to the editorial "Yes, the President Can Obstruct Justice".

In the editorial, the author explains that the President can obstruct justice and give an example of president Nixon in 1974, where the house of representatives drafted the first article of impeachment. Nixon was charged with "interfering or endeavoring to interfere with the conduct of investigations by the Department of Justice of the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the office of Watergate Special Prosecution Force." The author also gave an example of President Bill Clinton who was impeached by the house for, among other things, having "prevented, obstructed and impeded the administration of justice" and for having "engaged personally, and through his subordinates and agents, in a course of conduct or scheme designed to delay, impede, cover up and conceal the existence of evidence and testimony."  

I do agree with the author that the president can obstruct justice. I believe every American people, who do not have an intention to cover up the president's obstruction justice, can agree with the author that the president can obstruct justice. 

So, one can ask why a well educated and informed Trump layer can say that "the president can not obstruct justice"? The answer is simple. There is no other reason to do so than to intend to cover up the evidence that the President obstructed Justice at the same or at the upper level compared to president Nixon or Bill Clinton who were charged by the house of the representatives against Obstruction of Justice. 

President Trump admitted himself on the TV that he fired Flynn, his former National Security Adviser because he lied to the Vice President and to the FBI about his communications with Russian officials.   At the time Flynn was fired, the President knew that Flynn lied to the FBI but did not say anything. He is the President, he knows that lying to the FBI is a crime, but did not report or ask for an investigation. On top of that, according to the former FBI Director who was fired by Trump, instead of helping the Justice, Trump asked to drop the investigation on Flynn and fired Comey because he did not want to stop the investigation. On a TV, Trump admitted that he fired the former FBI director because of an ongoing investigation that he qualifies as a made-up story. All these are proofs that Trump is obstructing Justice and he will keep doing it until he is charged against it. Saying that the president can not obstruct Justice despite all the knowledge is a sign that he is not ready to stop.

Comment to blog 7

This is a comment on my classmate entitled Political Views and Issues.

I am glad you brought up this current hot topic again, and I agree with you on your point of view. I am glad that you took your time to find this shocking data. This a serious issue in America that needs serious and unbiased thoughts by all of us, since we are all concerned. I agree with your conclusion as well, and I will focus on this one to bring in my analysis of the situation.

Despite the data shown on this blog, let me bring up some other facts that could be considered contributing to the problem.

As we all know, there is a hugely profitable business in gun selling and gun trafficking. This is one of the influences on the situation, and may heavily contribute on opposing any kind of gun control.

On one hand, of course, the NRA and other gun businesses will love to have customers to buy their guns and think about which kind of marketing that these businesses would have to succeed. As none can buy a good without need, guns will not sell if there is no threat to protect from. Guns will not sell if there is no such shocking statistics of violence including gun violence.

On the other hand, these businesses are good and important financial supporters, donors, of our politicians. These lawmakers, executives, and other politicians are still in need of this bloody money for reelection and agendas.
This is why they are not doing anything serious, and this is why we should all be involved to get anything done.