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January 20, 2009

Good Luck, Mr. President

So in a few short hours Barack Hussein Obama will take the oath of office and become our 44th President. Well, best of luck to you, Mr. President. You step into a job that little can truly prepare you for, and the responsibility of 300 million lives now falls squarely on your shoulders. I pray that you will lead with wisdom and have the courage to make the unpopular decisions that are best for our country, not for any one party or interest group. I pray that you and your family are kept from harm. And I pray that our wonderful country and her wonderful, wonderful people continue to cherish the ideals that make such a day like this possible and never take such freedoms for granted.

O' beautiful, for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed His grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea.

O' beautiful, for pilgrim feet
Whose stern, impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America! God mend thine ev'ry flaw;
Confirm thy soul in self control, thy liberty in law!

O' beautiful, for heroes proved
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America! May God thy gold refine,
'Til all success be nobleness, and ev'ry gain divine!

O' beautiful, for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years,
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America! God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea!

Posted by Mr. Bingley at January 20, 2009 07:41 AM

Comments

Amen.

I may agree with almost none of his stated positions, I may be disgusted by the rockstar-like adulation that is being shown to him, but I hope for the sake of the country AND his family that he stays safe. And I hope he does a good job and governs wisely.

Posted by: ricki at January 20, 2009 08:36 AM

Amen to that, the both of you.

Posted by: tree hugging sister at January 20, 2009 08:48 AM

Ditto.

Posted by: JeffS at January 20, 2009 09:28 AM

My brother is a big Hussein O. fan. He keeps telling me that I'll end up being a convert. I told him that this is impossible because I never intend to be a communist, and Hussein O. is a communist.

I can't really blame Hussein O., he is what he is. I can blame the American people for being led down the road to Serfdom so willingly by the Bush dynasty.

Bush's nationalizing of two major industries will be remembered by future historians as the end of the American experiment. Hussein O.'s inauguration is the beginning of our new unabashedly socialist futures. I see little room for optimism or hope.

Posted by: Skyler at January 20, 2009 10:23 AM

Cheer up, Skyler. The Big O is moving much more centrist than feared (or hoped by the adoring left). We're in for a bumpy ride but I do think the Blue Dogs will help keep the lunatics in check.

Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at January 20, 2009 11:58 AM

Congrats to our first black socialist President. May he do better than expected.

And now that we've gone far enough beyond race to elect him, can we go far enough to oppose him without being called racists?

Posted by: nightfly at January 20, 2009 12:56 PM

Benediction at Obama 's inauguration, Rev. Joseph Lowery: 'Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around... when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right. That all those who do justice and love mercy say Amen. Say Amen'...
Wow, yeah, that's not horrifically racist, but it's cool you know...cause he's black. And everyone knows no white person would ever embrace anything correct like black, brown, red and polkadot people do. Glad I'm part brown and not just all white, or I'd be all wrong. Hypocrites.

I find it exceptionally funny, because instead of doing the whole "we're all american things" we've started it off by defining by skin color...wasn't the Great One's appearance on the international stage supposed to stop that? Oh, and nice job screwing up your opening lines, lets hope the rest of your executive ability doesn't follow suit. Inexperience, always better than experience, at least...here's hoping.

Posted by: Ebola at January 20, 2009 05:26 PM

The mania continues....illegals are happy because they can come back to be illegals if the economy revamps:

Carlos Villafuerte González, 31, returned to Mexico last month after working as an illegal immigrant selling tacos in New York City because he was not making enough to make ends meet. Mr. Villafuerte said he was hopeful that Obama would revamp the economy in America so he could return. “There’s a lot of hope that Obama will make things better. If Obama succeeds, then people like me can succeed as well and I can go back.”
Ain't that...well, it's so disturbing to me I can't even think of the words.

Posted by: Ebola at January 20, 2009 10:53 PM

Posted by: Ebola at January 20, 2009 10:54 PM

Ebola: I always liked Obama,hope he turns things
around.
I played back his swearing in and looked at the
Constitution.The Chief Justice messed up the swearing in.He mixed-up the oath completely.Obama
was trying to get him to switch it but Roberts was
hopeless.Bush appointee like everything else(incompetent)

Posted by: greg newson at January 20, 2009 11:06 PM

Greg, we're all human. To say Chief Justice Roberts is incompetent very strongly suggests to me that you've never actually read any of his opinions. The man is a legal titan, and no credible lawyer of any political stripe would say otherwise.

Posted by: Dave J at January 21, 2009 12:45 AM

Chief Justice forgot more Constitutional Law since he woke up this morning than President Obama ever knew.

Posted by: Jim - PRS at January 21, 2009 09:11 AM

Pff, considering I'm entering the bloody military I hope the crook does well for the country. Doesn't change my opinion. First time I recall the US freely electing a man with so many flaws and so very...very little experience(remember how clinton had to dodge smoking a joint? ...and we're lettin someone that tried/likes coke in office [haven't read his propoganda material on that, so we'll say tried]). It's bad when even the bloody Brits (read the comments) are quite capable of recognising those facts. The guy got into office on the pretence of being the first black president and having a decent personality (let's face it, Jesse didn't because he was far too controversial - O did because he's done everything in his power to be neutral, which generally means doing nothing at all). His record is efficiently not a record, the few times he bothered voting anything (if he was there) other than the democrat line he just said, "Uh...here."

Honestly, all I can hope is that the Chicago political(aka criminal) machine that produced him, instilled in him enough skill to actually take action. He's great at talking, but his actions, what few there have been in his career so far, simply leave me shaking my head.

Here's hoping it all works out.

Posted by: Ebola at January 21, 2009 09:47 AM