Posted on 11/05/2008 9:25:49 AM PST by Lucky9teen
After George W. Bush defeated Al Gore, and later John Kerry, for the presidency, countless Democrat-owned cars bore bumper stickers with clever phrases like 'Not My President' or 'Don't Blame Me I Voted for Kerry'.
As a conservative evangelical Christian who voted for McCain-Palin, and for every other Republican on the ballot yesterday, let me say for the record: Barack Obama is my president.
I stayed up past midnight to watch his victory speech. I wept (a little less than Jesse Jackson) because the moment stirred me with gratitude for how God has thus far corrected America's most crippling birth defect -- racist discrimination.
I take my president-elect at his word when he says to those who didn't vote for him: "I hear your voices, I need your help, and I will be your president too."
Mr. President, the best thing you can do for us is to lead a new generation to live out the American dream as you have. In other words, President Obama, I pray that your example will serve to create a wave of citizens whose lives follow your own storyline.
This would produce an America comprised of people who...
* can choose where to school their children (as your Mom chose private school for you), * work hard to achieve their goals, * dedicate themselves to lifelong learning, * marry persons of the opposite sex and remain faithful to them, * bear living children and bring them up in a two-parent home, * take advantage of free markets and their own skills to earn money, * negotiate their own compensation, * manage that money responsibly, * demonstrate a willingness to serve our nation.
Mr. President, while your official policy statements envision a nation very different from the one that produced your extraordinary success story, I know that you're still relatively new to civic life and you seem willing to learn. You strike me as a quick study, who can really make a difference when he sets his mind to it.
Leaders tend to attract people who are like them, and to inspire people to emulate them. Sometimes it's hard to recognize the factors that have shaped our own existence. Take a moment to consider how your life exemplifies the principles that have made this nation great.
What we need now is not policies to implement your stated ideology. We need for you to recognize the true power behind your own inspiring story.
Yep. See my similar comment.
After all the Scrappleface posts, you'd think people would know the name "Scott Ott"...
You haven’t learned anything from the past 8 years.
You don’t have to act like a statesman. You don’t have to articulate an intelligent position. All you have to do is paint the opposition as evil and you win.
It’s time to start hitting back.
oh,please, playing nice HAS GOTTEN US NOWHERE! we have played nice, given concessions and still get labled as hateful and racists. FUG them, I never played nice and never will. the nail on the coffin was when mccain rebuked his crowd when they booed about Obama, “hey he’s a great guy we break bread on sunday and play cards on friday” stupid old geriactric bastard.
I am NOT saying we give in and “play nice.”
DO NOT twist what I am saying.
We still fight like heck to defeat his policies. But, you know what, we still realize he is the president whether we like it or not.
We argue with him on that turf, not act in denial like he didn’t win.
Even if every single vote from ACORN went to Obama, he still won have won the election WITHOUT fraud pretty handily.
You forgot the barf alert!
Huh? Have you not been paying attention? No, he is far worse than a liberal senator.
And I for one dont see it as the end of the world. I am ready to fight. A line has been crossed and we now have to fight back from the ground up to hit the reset button on our nation.
"Up" and "yours." In that order.
God has thus far corrected America’s most crippling birth defect — racist discrimination.
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Dont blame this travesty on God...
And no, “racist distrimination” has not been “corrected”...
Obama is not the descendant of slaves...
He does not represent the black Americans...
His Dad was born in Africa...here on a student visa...
If you wanted equal time...
You should have elected Michael Steele...
Ditto
Hint: Scott Ott is better known as “Scrappleface”.
Doesn’t Scott Ott write the scrappleface blog?
> I take my president-elect at his word when he says to
> those who didn’t vote for him: “I hear your voices, I need
> your help, and I will be your president too.”
That’s why Obama’s first move was to ask viscous and profane Chicago Machine attack dog, Rahm Emmanuel, to be his chief of staff.
This is the same sense of misguided rectitude that cost McCain the presidency. But people feel obligated not only to continue to go through the same self-defeating motions, but to justify doing so in print.
I take my president-elect at his word when he says to those who didn't vote for him: "I hear your voices, I need your help, and I will be your president too."Except for non-criminal gun owners. To him, they are the enemy.
There is question, yet, as to whether he is even eligible to serve as president under USC Article II Section I. If it's just an embarrassment about his father, I think most Americans would understand. If it's something more - he needs to be vetted. If he is not eligible to serve per citizenship, then he needs to step down without a fight and let Mr. Biden serve in his stead.
It bears remembering that he has no record of bipartisanship or "reaching out". Obumwad is probably the most partisan candidate we have ever elected President. And it's going to manifest itself in how he governs. Republicans should labor under no illusions. He's going to expect them to fall in line, or get steamrolled. That's why I said in another thread the 'Pubs in the Senate should resolve to filibuster everything, and I mean everything, this bum sends up.
Look, the guy talks great. I heard the exchange with Joe Wurtzelbacher. Oboma was very polite, congenial, conciliatory. But these are just masks he puts on. He was schooled by Alinsky to talk this way, especially with "white folks". But underneath he's a hard-line partisan Marxist, make no mistake.
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