An Historic Day

It sure seems as if the media is trying to make this "Coronation" Day instead of Inauguration Day. However, no matter how much hoopla and overzealous posturing we make today tomorrow will dawn with the same problems facing this great nation as we have today. Like almost all Americans I hope with all of my heart that Barack Obama will be a good...if not great...president. I hope that he will surround himself with wise advisers who may have some solutions to this ever deepening financial crisis...as well as the wars that rage all over the world. The wars that are fought against those so opposed to the American way of life that they willingly give up their own lives just to kill a few who may disagree with them. This is all so sad...but...it is the way of the world today. I also think that history will be a lot kinder to George W. Bush than the current media pundits have been (I don't even consider the lunatic Left that so controls the Internet with their hateful web sites). He did make some miscalculations, but when you have to make hard decisions all you can use to help make those decision is the best information available at the time. If the future proves some of the information to be faulty, it is outrageous to accuse the decision maker of willfully misleading anyone. The fact that America has not been attacked in the seven years since 9/11 should count for something. I also hope that Barack Obama understands that every single person in the country has a different idea as to what "Change We Can Believe In" really means. I hope and pray that he understands that this great nation became great because of Democracy and Capitalism...not Socialism. I hope and pray that Dick Morris was wrong last night when he said in four years we will resemble France more than we do the America of the past hundred years. I hope and pray that the "responsibility" Obama talks about is real and that all of us will step up and be accountable...that everyone will look for "hand ups" not "hand outs." I hope and pray that we will become a nation of workers and not simply observers standing in line at the alter of government handouts and benefits. Can we do it? Yes. Will we do it? Only time and God can reveal that. May God bless America.