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The essence of who we are as Americans.

I was once reminded by a White House official who was involved in developing a list of Presidential appointees, that the President valued those in America who had a long history of involvement measured in years and decades, rather than in a convenient momentary slice of time.

She said that it clearly demonstrates a lot about a person's character by the type of involvement they had in their community and demonstrated the true essence of that person. According to this official it speaks volumes about their true commitment to keeping intact the fabric of the place where they call their home. She added that it also added a sort of patriotic varnish to the finish you want to display to the nation and the world.

I firmly believe that it is far better that we leave those societal disengaged Americans to their own self absorbed designs because it is far better that they keep their conduct and philosophical beliefs to themselves than to spread their attitudes amongst the general population and therefore inject the "negativity virus" into the public discourse.

Samuel Adams, a Revolutionary War patriot agrees with that type of American who would rather be a disengaged American. "If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest for freedom, go home and leave us in peace. We seek not your council nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." --Samuel Adams

Our liberty, our freedom is inextricably to the child down the street or at the next farm or the family you provide the mentoring to may make the difference in becoming the next critical vote on a federal appeal's court could make the difference in saving the life of another innocent like Terri Schiavo.

"With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own," President John Kennedy,

I say don't worry about the disengaged Americans. In the end, they will only have to answer to their own night terrors, and those fortunate Americans to have cared...we will be satisfied that we made God's work on Earth our own.

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Kevin Fobbs is President of National Urban Policy Action Council (NuPac), a non-partisan civic and citizen-action organization that focuses on taking the politics out of policy to secure urban America's future one neighborhood, one city, and one person at a time. View NuPac on the web at www.nupac.info. Kevin Fobbs is also Outreach Communications Vice Chairman of the Michigan Republican Party and daily host of The Kevin Fobbs Show on News Talk WDTK - 1400 AM in Detroit as well as co-founder of the Jackson, MI-based American Conservative Values Television Network. Listen to The Kevin Fobbs Show at www.wdtkam.com. daily3-4 PM, On-line and call-in nationwide to make your opinion count toll-free at 800-923-WDTK(9385).

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Note -- The opinions expressed in this column are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions, views, and/or philosophy of GOPUSA.

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