2009 will mark the first year we spend with President Obama; an upsetting prospect for those of us who did not vote for him and of course a welcome change for those who did. As someone who did not support and who will not welcome the coming of the Obama administration, I admit that my love of country is more powerful than one Party, one leader, one administration that anything mortal could conceive or contrive.
In this new year of 2009 I resolve to temper my loath for President-Elect Obama’s ideals and ideology for the warm and sweet embrace of the perspicacity displayed by our founding fathers and our very first president. George Washington could easily have ruled as a king but upon the end of his second term he relinquished his power; willingly and peacefully he set in motion a tradition soon to be on display in Washington as George W. Bush stands upon the tall shoulders of American giants and peacefully hands control of our Executive branch to a man who has sworn himself to a worldview that is diametrically opposed to my own and many others.
Obama, like those before him, will become the latest steward of an office and the figurehead of a nation that means more to me than I could ever express in words. I believe forcefully that this nation conceived in liberty was created not just from the providence of human beings but inspired by the heavens and sowed and continually replanted by the blood and labor of heroes and heroines.
In this time of resolutions I resolve to oppose the incoming President’s agenda but to do so in a manner that is respectful and fitting of the high office the people of this nation entrusted him with. Over the last eight years liberal opposition to the Bush administration has acted shamefully, hurling slanderous insults not just upon our President’s agenda but against the office and the nation their leader of which their leader will soon take command. Over the last eight years with little evidence of wrongdoing liberals have likened our president to the terrorists he has so nobly fought and condemned our nation’s entire history and commanding stance in the global marketplace .
Worse still we have watched these same individuals fight tirelessly to undermine our nation’s military and even argue on behalf of brutal dictators around the world; they have been caught cheering for nations like Russia and Venezuela to challenge our commerce and command. The last eight years of liberal treason was born from blind party loyalty, deranged paranoia and a self loathing that has permeated the deepest roots of the Democratic Party. All of this stemmed from a hatred of one man and a political agenda they disagreed with because blind party loyalty told them it should be so.
I admit openly there was a time when I too considered myself a Democrat and was surrounded daily with such extremism. While I still question many of the decisions made by George W. Bush and other commanders and opinion leaders in our nation over its history, the love I feel for this nation cannot be deconstructed or destroyed simply because our righteousness is often clouded by temporary fits of poor judgement.
While I believe we have reached a moment of such judgement I do not hold contempt for my countrymen. I would never suggest that a political decision would lead me to withdraw from this country or denounce its justness in the world. Likewise I cannot and will not treat the Obama administration with the same blind contempt that I have watched liberals hold for President Bush. When the incoming president acts righteously and justly for the safety and prosperity of our nation I will applaud him. When he acts with such righteousness but walks in the wrong direction, I will question his judgement but not assault his motives.
In 2009 I will be vocal and carry with me a skeptical mind but I will not denounce this nation or those who serve it from the simplicity and sacrosanct of blind allegiance to Party or Partisanship. If evidence can be found that anyone Representing our government has attempted to usurp or destroy our Constitution or betray the oath of office to which they are sworn, I will fight them with the same force leveled upon the British tyrants who once held thirteen colonies captive; I will not simply subscribe to hate or extremism because I disagree with a political decision or the direction our new President would take us in.
There is not just room for dissension in our nation, such dissent is a vital part of our Democracy and a sacred component of our Republic. It is blind hatred that is never justified and is counterproductive to our development. I know many will disagree with this assessment and some will spent the next four years attempting to exact revenge for the last eight. I resolve to do better, be better, for the sake of not just myself but our nation and in the spirit of those who gave birth to our wonderful common dream.
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