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Barack Obama is President-Elect: Now What?

November 10, 2008 By




Barack Hus­sein Obama, junior sen­a­tor from the State of Illi­nois, has been elected as the 44th Pres­i­dent of the United States with his term begin­ning on Jan­u­ary 20, 2009.  As a cit­i­zen of this Nation I ask: Where do we go from here?

First and fore­most let me con­grat­u­late Mr. Obama on a suc­cess­ful cam­paign and his elec­tion.  He will be our Pres­i­dent in two months, whether we like it or not.  With that said, let me make one thing clear: I did not vote for him, nor will I ever vote for him.  This is not because he is a black man, and this is not because his mid­dle name is “Hus­sein”.  Frankly, I do not believe that he has the nec­es­sary expe­ri­ence to be the leader of our great Nation.  He will have to prove to me — nay, to all Amer­i­cans — that he has the where­withal to be in this position.

I do not believe in his plat­form or his poli­cies.  I do not believe they will help our Nation, and I do not believe they are the best thing for our Nation.  If he was a lib­er­tar­ian con­ser­v­a­tive, I would be the first one vot­ing for him.  How­ever, he is not. 

But lis­ten to me — all of you.  I will not do as our some of our broth­ers and sis­ters did.  I will not bash him; I will not call him names like “war crim­i­nal”.  I will not call for his impeach­ment imme­di­ately, and I will not say that he stole the elec­tion.  It is clear he did not.  The Coun­try voted him in.  There­fore, I will sup­port the office of the Pres­i­dent of the United States, and I will sup­port the gov­ern­ment of the United States — until such time that they infringe upon my rights as a United States cit­i­zen or until such time that the Con­sti­tu­tion has been breached.  Until then, it is incum­bent upon us cit­i­zens to ensure that the gov­ern­ment upholds its promises duty to defend our rights to life, lib­erty and the pur­suit of hap­pi­ness (in that order).

Right now I am thor­oughly and utterly dis­gusted with all polit­i­cal par­ties and all of our lead­ers.  None of them have held the cit­i­zens’ best inter­ests at heart.  They each have had their own agenda, and they are all cor­rupt.  I will make a full dis­clo­sure and say that I voted for John McCain, but it was only because there was no other option.  The con­ser­v­a­tive truly had no choice in this elec­tion — not even with Bob Barr.

I cur­rently have no ties to any polit­i­cal party, and I doubt that will change any time soon. I will solely vote on the issues.  If I do not like the candidate’s plat­form, then I will not vote for him or her, no mat­ter what. I will write in a can­di­date if I have to.  That is the way I feel, and that is what I will do.
For the next four years, though, we con­ser­v­a­tives and lib­er­tar­i­ans must do all we can to ensure that the Obama admin­is­tra­tion does not pass any laws that infringe on our Creator-endowed rights or that shred the United States Con­sti­tu­tion.  That also means we must hold our con­gress­men account­able for the votes they make, and the stands they take. If we do not agree with the leg­is­la­tion, we must let our con­gress­men know (just as we did with the Dubai Ports deal and the Immi­gra­tion Reform Act).  But we must do it in a civil fash­ion, and we must do it intelligently.

As always, please pray for our lead­ers, for our coun­try, and for our ser­vice­men and ser­vice­women. Pray that they will make the best deci­sions for all of us.  Pray that our coun­try will be secure from all ene­mies — both for­eign and domes­tic.  And pray for the safety of our sol­diers in harm’s way who are keep­ing us safe.  Right now, that is the best we can do.

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