Country First

The United States of America has a new Commander and Chief. A new President that I did my best to see defeated in his bid for the Presidency. So, how am I dealing with it? How do I feel about it?

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I'm cautiously hopeful. President Obama does not appear to be the extreme left-wing radical that I had feared he was. Actually, he seems to be pretty pragmatic and grounded. True, he's a leftist Democrat, and that's regrettable, but it's certainly not a cause for anger or despair. We've dealt with Democrats in the past, and we'll deal with them in the future. Democrats are sometimes unbelievably dense and misguided, but they are nonetheless a vital part of the fabric of our free and Democratic Republic. I've seen ten Presidential Administrations come and go -- six of them Republican, and four of them Democratic. Now we have the beginning of the fifth Democratic Administration of my lifetime. So the administrations are now about evened out. Which is as it should be. Over and over, I've watched the pendulum swing back and forth from one extreme to the other. The long-term end result is a nation that is balanced and on even keel. Sinking -- but balanced and on even keel. It's time for us, as a unified nation, to start bailing with a will, and raise our Ship of State once more. Yes, I would have been happier if John McCain had been elected, and yes the Democrats have an inordinate amount of benighted scatterbrains in their ranks -- but Obama has been elected President, and elected by a large, undeniable margin. He is now POTUS, President of the United States. I respect the fact that he was freely elected, and that the majority of Americans voted for him. The pendulum will swing back; the Republicans will regroup, rethink, reinvent themselves, and return. Sooner rather than later, one hopes. But for now, President Obama is the freely elected leader of my country, and my Commander in Chief during time of war. I wish him good luck and Godspeed. During the election I wrote an article for CFP in which I said that I would apologize to Obama if he turned out to not be the extreme radical that I feared he was. Consider this article to be that apology. [url=http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/5673]http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/5673[/url] Now, lest some of you radical-left, tree-hugging nitwits think I'm going soft in my dotage, let me assure you that I fully intend on continuing to oppose your lame-brained left-wing lunacies with gusto and vigor. I've become cautiously hopeful, not an idiot.