Barrack Hussein Obama is President elect of the United States and the sky will NOT fall and there is a GOOD reason to celebrate.
An important barrier has been broken. It has been a great thing for most people in this country to be able to tell their children, "ANYONE can become President." Well, the honest will know that minorities, particularly black minorities, have never really felt that, and for good reason. When you grew up knowing that there were separate drinking fountains, separate bathrooms, separate schools, and places you could not enter because of your skin color, its pretty tough to believe that your child could someday be President of the United States.
I am glad that a black person was elected President, I just wish it were one that I had greater confidence would be someone I could trust to lead our country on a moderate path, if not a conservative one. I wish it were someone who understood the threat of Islamic Jihad to our nation, and I wish it were someone who would not appoint activist judges with a socialist and socially liberal agenda to our courts.
On the bright side again, President Elect Obama has shown himself to be a pragmatist, if not a moderate. He has shown, since his victory in the Democratic Primaries, that he will reshape his policies to match political realities. During the primaries he touted an immediate pull out of Iraq, "guaranteed." Since then he has not said that and in fact has taken a more practical approach and surrounded himself with advisors that know better and he seems to be listening to them. We will see.
On the brighter side, President Elect Obama has surrounded himself with some BRILLIANT financial advisors including Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volker (who warned Congress and Bill Clinton NOT to change the banking rules that would have prevented our financial meltdown this year) and Warren Buffet, arguably the greatest mind in the world when it comes to financial markets.
On the brighter side, the people did NOT give President Elect Obama a filibuster proof congress, so he will have to tone his programs down from the extreme liberal side.
Most folks do not know or remember that the inspired Founding Fathers of this nation DESIGNED our government to be difficult. While people complain that "nothing gets done" they forget that the Founding Fathers wanted it that way. They did not want it to be easy to change the course of this Nation. They wanted it to be difficult, they wanted politicians to spend more time in argument and debate than in passing legislation.
Sometimes that will work in your favor, and sometimes it will work against your personal interests. If you are a conservative like me, it will now work in our favor.
At least, that is the hope that I have the audacity to believe.
An important barrier has been broken. It has been a great thing for most people in this country to be able to tell their children, "ANYONE can become President." Well, the honest will know that minorities, particularly black minorities, have never really felt that, and for good reason. When you grew up knowing that there were separate drinking fountains, separate bathrooms, separate schools, and places you could not enter because of your skin color, its pretty tough to believe that your child could someday be President of the United States.
I am glad that a black person was elected President, I just wish it were one that I had greater confidence would be someone I could trust to lead our country on a moderate path, if not a conservative one. I wish it were someone who understood the threat of Islamic Jihad to our nation, and I wish it were someone who would not appoint activist judges with a socialist and socially liberal agenda to our courts.
On the bright side again, President Elect Obama has shown himself to be a pragmatist, if not a moderate. He has shown, since his victory in the Democratic Primaries, that he will reshape his policies to match political realities. During the primaries he touted an immediate pull out of Iraq, "guaranteed." Since then he has not said that and in fact has taken a more practical approach and surrounded himself with advisors that know better and he seems to be listening to them. We will see.
On the brighter side, President Elect Obama has surrounded himself with some BRILLIANT financial advisors including Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volker (who warned Congress and Bill Clinton NOT to change the banking rules that would have prevented our financial meltdown this year) and Warren Buffet, arguably the greatest mind in the world when it comes to financial markets.
On the brighter side, the people did NOT give President Elect Obama a filibuster proof congress, so he will have to tone his programs down from the extreme liberal side.
Most folks do not know or remember that the inspired Founding Fathers of this nation DESIGNED our government to be difficult. While people complain that "nothing gets done" they forget that the Founding Fathers wanted it that way. They did not want it to be easy to change the course of this Nation. They wanted it to be difficult, they wanted politicians to spend more time in argument and debate than in passing legislation.
Sometimes that will work in your favor, and sometimes it will work against your personal interests. If you are a conservative like me, it will now work in our favor.
At least, that is the hope that I have the audacity to believe.
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