Inauguration Day

Today — Jan­u­ary 20^th, 2009 — is the 56^th Inau­gu­ra­tion of the Pres­i­dent of the United States.  Whether we con­ser­v­a­tives like it or not, Barack Hus­sein Obama is about to be sworn in as the 44^th Pres­i­dent.  His­tory is being made today.  I don’t agree with his poli­cies at all, but I hope he is a good pres­i­dent.  I hope God grants him the wis­dom to do what’s right and just.  I hope Pres­i­dent Obama seeks God in all the deci­sions he makes.  That is the hope I have for today.

Pres­i­dent Obama has used the theme “We Are One” a lot for his inau­gural theme.  He has said that we can “start anew” with his pres­i­dency.  Well, I want to go back in his­tory to one of the great­est inau­gural speeches in our illus­tri­ous his­tory, when we were start­ing anew:

In these hon­or­able qual­i­fi­ca­tions I behold the surest pledges that as on one side no local prej­u­dices or attach­ments, no sep­a­rate views nor party ani­mosi­ties, will mis­di­rect the com­pre­hen­sive and equal eye which ought to watch over this great assem­blage of com­mu­ni­ties and inter­ests, so, on another, that the foun­da­tion of our national pol­icy will be laid in the pure and immutable prin­ci­ples of pri­vate moral­ity, and the pre­em­i­nence of free gov­ern­ment be exem­pli­fied by all the attrib­utes which can win the affec­tions of its cit­i­zens and com­mand the respect of the world. I dwell on this prospect with every sat­is­fac­tion which an ardent love for my coun­try can inspire, since there is no truth more thor­oughly estab­lished than that there exists in the econ­omy and course of nature an indis­sol­u­ble union between virtue and hap­pi­ness; between duty and advan­tage; between the gen­uine max­ims of an hon­est and mag­nan­i­mous pol­icy and the solid rewards of pub­lic pros­per­ity and felic­ity; since we ought to be no less per­suaded that the pro­pi­tious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that dis­re­gards the eter­nal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained; and since the preser­va­tion of the sacred fire of lib­erty and the des­tiny of the repub­li­can model of gov­ern­ment are justly con­sid­ered, per­haps, as deeply, as finally, staked on the exper­i­ment entrusted to the hands of the Amer­i­can people.

I will be pray­ing for our new Pres­i­dent, and I will con­tinue to be pray­ing for won­der­ful Coun­try.

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