On this day, the twentieth of January, two thousand and nine, A.D., the United States of America held its Presidential Inauguration for the second black president in its history. Not only did we show the world the U.S. of A. holds a representative democracy so sacred as to parade the change of powers from one free man to another, but we could ridicule the outgoing president at the same time, without fear of being hauled off to a soccer field and summarily executed.
God bless America!
Clarification: Maybe ‘we’ should be changed to ‘some.’ Maybe ‘second’ should be changed to ‘first.’ I was told president Clinton was the first black president.
By the way, Obama is only half-black or half-white, whichever glass from which you choose to drink. What will happen when we elect our first half-black & half-black president? Will the cries of, “Obama wasn’t really black,” be heard? I hope I live long enough to hear that argument.
One thing I do know, is that the U.S. knows how to throw a party and show the world how a representative democracy works. I hope Baghdad was watching. There’s that ‘hope’ word, again.
No sooner than President Obiden was sworn-in, I think (because the conspiracy theorists will claim that birth certificate issue and the flubbing issue), the haters of America had signs of “Death to Obama,” which appeared to still be wet with ink from the local print shops in Tehran.
I also know I voted for McCain/Palin. While Senator McCain and Governor Palin may not have won the election (‘may’ since there are those pesky conspiracy theorists, again) — I did not lose. My vote was not cast in vain. My vote counted.
I’m on the winning team of the United States of America.
Now, I will admit, my vote for McCain/Palin was a vote against someone who — in my opinion — phoned-it-in as a Senator and his team so elegantly and strategically beat the Republican Party at the game of “Who Wants To Be A President?”
Leadership of the Republican Party? You got your lunch taken from you and your butt kicked so bad, you’re still rubbing it, waiting to go home and tell your parents.
McCain is a true-to-life war hero and U.S. Senator. Palin is a bright Governor and shooting star in the Republican Party. As for our Republican Party leadership? Well, we need to clean house. Put everyone on the waiver wire. [Those devoid of the sports gene will have to use The Google.]
Obama was manufactured from whole cloth with the ability to publicly speak very well. Which apparently, according to most Democrats I meet in the Land of Hollywood, is THE ONLY quality a president needs. Other than that, they are…[fill in the blank with your own pejorative]. That note was for the Democrats in the Land of Hollywood.
President Reagan was the only exception to that rule.
New Words
I learned new words today. Black-a-thon. Obama-gasm. And, Booo! Go back to Texas!
Shame on those who mock an American president — Democrat or Republican. Shame on you.
I taught myself some new words — Obama’s Your Mama.
There are those who know President Obama will pay their car note, mortgage and give them a job. They hope for it. Hope again, there.
They know he’ll do it by taking money away from those who earned it and giving it to those who didn’t. Redistribution of the wealth. Even Joe the Plumber knows that.
But, change was coming today. There’s that old-new word — change. Change was coming whether McCain/Palin won the game or Obama/Biden. It’s in our democracy DNA.
Terrorists
President Obama said, “We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you.”
I do know — we as Americans — love freedom more than the terrorists love to die. [Repeat.]
Proud to be an American? Democrat or Republican?
A New Hope
The fact President Obama took the oath of office, with his hand upon Lincoln’s bible, was momentous for all Americans — past and present. I know Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is gazing down from the heavens and smiling about his dream.
President Obama is a Democrat. I only know of one Democrat in my life, a young, smart, nice guy lawyer, who doesn’t shout, ridicule, mock or attack me when we debate. We have opposing viewpoints on our democracy and politics yet, we can still be friends. A Democrat is my president. I can live with that. Democrats in the Land of Hollywood can never live with a Republican president.
Ronald Reagan got a pass because he was ‘one of us.’ He happened to become one of this country’s great presidents.
No matter your viewpoint, politics, color of your skin, a man has been sworn-in today as our 44th president.
And if I were standing next to him today, I would ask him to hold out his hand and turn it palm up as I did the same with mine next to his.
You see, we’re not that far apart. Are we?
And yes, “Obama’s My Mama, too.”
God give him strength and wisdom as the torch has been passed, as it shall always be, in this great country we take for granted — The United States of America.
I am,
The Hollywood Republican
