"When Democrats rush up to me at events and insist that we live
in the worst of political times, that a creeping fascism is closing
its grip around our throats, I may mention the internment of
Japanese Americans under FDR, the Alien and Sedition Acts under
John Adams, or a hundred years of lynching under several dozen administrations as having been possibly worse, and suggest that
we all take a deep breath,".... Barrack Obama.
From Newsweek;
Liberals who have thrilled to Obama could grow disenchanted with
him if he fails to deliver a progressive Valhalla by, say, Valentine's Day.
But the Reagan example offers a differentand more likelypossibility.
Given Obama's popularity with his base, he may be that rare politician
who can get away with making a deal without being seen as selling out. Reagan raised taxes and nobody held it against him, or even noticed all
that much. Obama could be a Teflon man for the new century.
Obama has more in common with Reagan than appearances might
suggest. Reagan's loyalists believed in his issues, or at least one
of his issues, and they believed in him. They were anxious for a change
from the incumbent administration at a time of shattered confidence and economic turmoil. The comparison is revealing, for it may foreshadow the nature of the next four or eight years.
Like Reagan, Obama is an astute performer, a maker of myths and a teller
of stories. Like Reagan, he is popularly seen, by friend and foe alike, as
an ideological puristbut has demonstrated a tendency toward the pragmatic. Like Reagan, he is the leader of a core of believers so
convinced he is on their side that they are likely to forgive him his compromises.
Obama gets the Gipper. "Reagan spoke to America's longing for order,"
he has written, "our need to believe that we are not simply subject
to blind, impersonal forces but that we can shape our individual and collective destinies, so long as we rediscover the traditional virtues
of hard work, patriotism, personal responsibility, optimism and faith."
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Now....I personally voted for McCain, although I have never considered him
a conservative......my donations went to Fred Thompson.
All that being said, my fellow americans have chosen him as President and
since I am a
BY GOD..AMERICAN he is now
MY PRESIDENT and as such will receive my Prayers and support.
Above all, I earnestly pray for his and his families safety.....lest some John
Wilks Booth should try to "save the nation".
I would hope that all here could find it in their hearts to do likewise.
I just didn't feel the sincerity in the bumper sticker and bubble gum wrapper speeches our new president elect delivered. No one more than me hopes to be proven wrong...but I just dont see it happening. 
