I had contemplated writing my first post the morning after an Obama win and discussing why Obama will be a disaster, how McCain lost the election, how this election was wholly based on emotion and not issues, and how I think the country will be in a worse way for the next few years. There will be plenty of time to write about things, things I will begin to write about shortly, including getting Mitt elected in 2012. But for this post’s purposes I want to really speak from the heart and express the pride I feel as an American.

Indeed this is an historic election for the United States and even the world. Last night American’s overwhelmingly elected out first Black president. This accomplishment is nothing to push aside considering America’s history with Black’s. 150 years ago slavery was still prevalent and was only about to be defeated by Lincoln in the civil war, yet even after the emancipation proclamation race continued to be a major issue and the Blacks had little opportunity for success and integration into American society. It was not until the mid-1900’s and the great civil-rights movement that broke down most of the barriers to Black progress in America. I have longed believed that true-racism has largely been eradicated in most of America for the last 20 years; certainly there are pockets of bigots and racists throughout the country (especially in the South), but this holds true for whites being racist against Blacks and Blacks being racist against whites (see Jeremiah Wright). But largely the it seems to me that race has been an overblown issue of late, driven largely by Black activists who need charges of racism to drive there personal agendas. (I should write a full post about this, because we could even get into the actions of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson regarding Obama’s campaign, but I digress). Finally, my belief has been validated. The election of Barack Obama as President of the United States should eradicate the overblown charges of widespread racism in America. Issues of race will never be fully gone. There will always be whites killing blacks because they are black and there will always be blacks killing whites because they are white; sadly, that is reality. But race is no longer a systemic issue and problem in our country and Barack’s election is the culminating event in Black progress. I think it reflects great maturity and progress in the U.S. and for that, and that alone, I applaud the election of Barack Obama and the American people.

So congratulations to President Obama and his family on his victory. I now plan on spending the next four years fighting to get you out of the White House. That being said, you have a great opportunity to win a lot of McCain voters, like myself, over if you govern as a moderate and pragmatically. If you show that you recognize the importance of maintaining processes that made America great; like capitalism, small government, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, etc. I highly encourage you to avoid moving full speed ahead and implementing a large left-wing agenda and socialist policies. Doing such will alienate many of the people who voted for you (and in 2012 expect the GOP to nominate someone who is not near as terrible a candidate as McCain was). You and your party have the opportunity to accomplish what the GOP failed to do in last decade when they had all the power, that is to uphold American ideals such as limited government. A left-wing agenda is the surest way to defeat in 2012, even you had to run to the right to win this election - every Democrat does. Best of luck for you and your cabinet, I will be praying for your Presidency.