Inauguration Day
Today – January 20th, 2009 – is the 56th 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 44th 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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