The American Freedom Network

Best Wishes to President-Elect Obama

Although this may be the last time I write anything in support of our soon-to-be-President, it is both traditional and a matter of grace to wish a new President, regardless of party affiliation or political persuasion, success as he takes office.  The time will come, soon, when partisan matters will divide us, and I’d expect to be in the loyal opposition much more than in support of Barak Obama’s policies, programs, proposals or people, but I can at least start out in a spirit of goodwill.  After all, failed Presidencies, such as those of Nixon, Carter, or Bush ’43, hurt the entire country. 
None of the above should be construed as an endorsement of the incoming Administration or its’ policies; rather, it is in the spirit of good sportsmanship that let Bo and Woody shake hands after every Michigan-Ohio State game, regardless of who won, of who said what or did what before or during the Big Game, or of how hard the losing side, especially, would work to get ready for the next one. 
Finally, the obvious symbolism of our first black President taking office the day after MLK Day will, I hope, cleanse as many minds as possible of racial animus, as Obama’s elevation, by a majority-white electorate, ought to make clear to all people of goodwill that racial politics, per se, is not (and has not been, for some time) part of the mainstream of American life or politics.  Indeed, there are few nations on Earth where a member of a minority race could win a national election, and perhaps none where they could do so in a federal system like ours.