Posted by
Playful Walrus on Thursday, January 15, 2009 3:12:36 PM
For over eight years, we have heard the whining and hysterics and paranoia and derision from the Left about President Bush.
He stole the election!
He actually believes the religion he professes!
He's going to force women into back-alley abortions and make sure they'd never get equal pay for doing the same amount, quality, and level of work!
He's going to end all medical research!
He's going to destroy education and force all the kids to be indoctrinated with young-earth creationism and abstinence preaching!
He's going to destroy the planet with global warming!
He's not going to force other people to provide me with top-notch health care are no cost to me!
He's giving tax breaks to the rich!
He's taking us to war only to enrich a handful of companies!
He's making hurricanes to kill black people and preventing them from leaving areas facing disasters!
He's not listening to or cooperating with Democrats, or other countries – everything is unilateral!
He's going to cancel elections and turn us into a Christianist Theocratic Dictatorship!
He's letting Cheney and Rove run everything!
He let 9/11 happen when he could have prevented it, or was in on it!
He's listening in to my phone calls, reading my e-mails and chat sessions, and going to stick us all in secret prisons and torture us!
Just about every person he nominated was vehemently opposed as one or more of the following:
1. completely inexperienced
2. just a crony
3. just a political hack
4. out of touch
5. extremist
6. the person who was really going to be in control of the whole Presidency
7. incompetent
8. evil
There was no honeymoon, there was no "wait and see". This kind of thing was how it was from the start.
Sure, most people rallied behind him immediately after 9/11, but that moment was very brief. Aside from that moment, it has been a constant barrage.
And now, some Republicans are tempted to respond just a little bit in kind now that there is a Democrat President coming in to office. One way we see this is with calls to "protest" Obama’s inauguration – not picketing like so many unwashed Leftist freaks – but by deliberately not watching and letting others know that they are going to "protest" or "mourn".
I call on my fellow Republicans, conservatives, and defenders of limited government to be respectful of the inauguration. Regardless of who is being inaugurated, these events are a testament to one of the blessings our founders secured – a smooth and orderly transition of power. In some countries, bloody coups are pretty much the norm, or corrupt dynasties that crush all potential rivals and rule for decades.
Thank God we live in the U.S.A.
We are a nation of laws, not men. Our nation is a collection of fifty states, each a democratic representative republic. Collectively, our fifty states elected B. H. Obama as President per Constitutional procedure. We should respect that, because we value doing things in an orderly, lawful way, an unlike too many of our political opponents, we have respect for the office of President and for our Constitution. Notice that a President on our side wouldn't take his jacket off in Oval Office, while one their side soiled an intern’s dress with a body fluid that shouldn’t have touched another person other than his wife.
Think of the inauguration as a celebration of our Constitution.
I'm no fan of Obama or Biden. That's obvious from my blog entries. But as far as we know, there wasn’t enough voter fraud to call their election into question. They won by unfairly blaming Bush and linking McCain to Bush, by fostering false hopes and wishful thinking and racism, and through massive voter ignorance – but that is all legal and orderly and Constitutional.
DON’T be like so many of our political opponents, who were constantly disrespectful and tacky and whiny and at times downright bizarre.
DO support our President in what he does right.
DO be vigilant in protecting our rights.
DO stay informed, be active, network, encourage, and persuade others towards limited-government thinking and action.
DON’T cast pearls before swine, wasting your breath with hardcore Leftists who will never change, but instead focus on the young and the undecided and the moderates, who will notice the difference in how we react to Obama and how the Left reacted to Bush.
Yes, Obama will be my President, because that is who our country elected.