The Good News and The Bad News...

Let's start this post on a happy note and go with the good news of the day before the bad.

America has made history and has voted in a black president, Barack Obama.

I want to extend a congratulations to the soon to be president on his historic day.

The other good news is that Bush will be out of his position in 76 days. I don't personally think that EVERYTHING he did was wrong or evil but I do feel that he was a horrible scarlet letter on the republican party. The good news wrapped in that is that we have at least 4 years to rebuild, not the republican brand but the conservative brand. Americans do not respect panderers to the center or opposite party, they elect based on the concrete principles that the party stands on. Bush is not the only republican to blame either, there are those in the house and senate as well. That doesn't let democrats off the hook though, there is more wrong with that party than there is with the republican but what does that say really? That just means that the whole system is stuck in muddy quicksand of pandering to corporations and special interests. No, now the republicans should focus on the core principles, refocus their attention on appealing to a broader audience (which includes breaking the rhetoric that it is an "all white" party and show it is not racist and/or sexist) and plan on a positive approach of keeping our heads high and working for the American people again, which neither party has done for a very long time.

The rebuilding process is something I look forward to, to be honest I was not mad this morning at all. I was somewhere between upset and relieved that Obama won. I am upset that Obama doesn't share my principles and policy ideas but that is fine, that will happen to everyone at one point or another. I am relieved that he won because we are given time to do all the rebuilding I was talking about and that it will be Obama's reputation on the line and not McCain's to get the country out of this mess, which leads me to the bad news....

Ask a democrat who they think were the worst democrat presidents in history, then ask a republican the same about their party. The difference will be that republicans can come up with a list of at least one, democrats can not. This is not because there weren't any but because of one of the democrat's defense mechanisms, blaming the last republican administration for their mistakes. Heck, democrats actually still think Jimmy Carter was a great president!

Obama is in for it, there is no doubt that Bush left some things in shambles. With this in mind, Obama's presidency will be absolutely perfect and, dare I say, heavenly. We can have a major terroristic attack that will kill millions of Americans, doesn't matter, Bush started this war and they wanted payback so it's his fault. When Obama raises taxes while we are in a recession and puts us into a depression, the economy started going down during Bush's term so it is his fault. Do you see the trend here? To be honest I would highly respect Obama if he "mans up" to his own mistakes, I think it is a problem for almost all politicians to admit they were wrong.

Another piece of bad news, apparently Obama, Pelosi, Reid and other head democrats want to silent the voices of opposition. A lot of people will argue that it pertains only to conservative talk radio with regards to the Fairness Doctorine but I have a feeling it runs much deeper. Bush opened the door with being able to anonymously say that someone you know may be a terrorist, now Obama will use the same method to silent the voices of opposition to him. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if blogger sites like mine are eventually shut down if they have an anti-Obama message. As far as the Fairness Doctorine goes, senate democrats will be in for one hell of a fight if that gets pushed through, I for one will accept it only if all TV stations have to hire just as many conservative journalists as the leftist journalist and they are all paid the same. If the View hires two more conservative women. Does that sound right to you??? Government dipping their hands into the private sector to mandate such things is ridiculous and both sides should be outraged.

One of my biggest concerns right now is the division in this country. I received a text message last night that said "History" from a friend of about 15 years or so. I responded that it was unfortunate. I was then called a "White suppremist". That is pretty sad, more so because she knows damn well that that is not true. I voted on principles and I am labeled a racist, I called it numerous times in previous posts. Obama's biggest problem is that he started this type of behavior in his party while spouting that he was going to "Unite" the country. He has a tough road ahead of him because it will be harder than ever. With pollsters estimating that 4-6% of the vote will be from racists, we now will label 46% of it as racists. Do you really think those people will easily unite behind this new leader when they are labeled incorrectly as racists?! Good luck...

Last but not least, this election proved something else, the country may have ended up with a liberal president BUT by the numbers it shows that America will not stand for radical leftist change. The numbers were too close and show that Obama only won by a "landslide" in electoral votes, not popular votes. This is still a right of center country and any radical change will be met with opposition and unfortunately violent opposition if it is forced on the people at the expense of their freedoms and liberties.

President Obama, I will be praying that you receive guidance and wisdom to lead this country and I congratulate you again.

God Bless America.