Posted by
Wayne Andres, RN on Thursday, November 13, 2008 12:00:00 AM
This month I'm turning 41, having been around through the administrations of Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton and W. Bush I cannot remember a time when I felt that the America as I knew it was about to change drastically. Since those conscious moments when I was actually aware of the president elect, I never once felt, well.....fear of a new administration. If there was an implication that big changes were coming, it was understood that it would take time. You know it's got to go through congress first and then to the President and back to congress. They would debate it, delay it and maybe even forget about it. Not so now, congress is looking more and more like a band of horney teenagers finally getting their chance to satisfy their longings. Since the announcement of Obama's election victory Pelosi and the like suddenly want to get back to business. Which concerns me as an American citizen on the conservative side of politics.
Usually I would brush off the dust of defeat from an election and get behind the new leader. Looking forward in hope that things would be alright. Clinton is one of those times when even though it was a democrat in office, he kind of just coasted through without ruffling to many feathers. I wasn't fearful that he was going to change the Constitution or push us into Socialism. His contacts were of a softer nature and only threatened Hilary. Not so with the President elect Barack Obama. With him we have no idea what to expect. Some say he'll move more center and work more like a moderate. Others think he's holding back until January to really let the cat out of the bag on us all. I wan't to believe the best. I wan't to get behind him and respect him. I wan't to put to rest alot of the concerns that I have but what I'm seeing on the horizon is prohibiting me. Is the fairness doctrine really going to become a reality? Are the feds going to continue to buy up American companies under the guise of 'bail out'? Will the supreme court be filled with judges who have no hesitance to alter the constitution? By the next election will it be illegal to say anything negative about your opponent? These are issues we have never had to deal with in such a large scale since the Declaration of Independence.
Last night CNN did a report that made the conservatives look like Bill Ayers and the underground in the sixties. Rick Sanchez stated "the Secret Service has now confirmed that threats against Barack Obama spiked when Sarah Palin began impugning his patriotism." Talking about hostilities and even murder against a teenage immigrant Sanchez and his co-host implied that "[w]hen people go out on the airwaves or in print or at the stump as a politician, and they beat that drum, they shouldn’t be surprised. At the end of the day, many people out there, and particularly young people, who are very impressionable, think, ‘Hey, you know what? This is one group we can do this to..."[t]he question that’s already being raised by activist groups in the newspapers is whether anti-immigrant rhetoric has created a climate for this kind of thing." So now conservatives are dangerous? Bill Ayers gets to walk peacefully into a voting center to cast his vote, but honest, patriotic, flag flying conservatives are now the leaders of hate and murder?
Well, for now George W. Bush is our president and I continue to stand behind him. During the next month and a half I'll be looking for Barack Obama to give me signs that he will govern, not 'rule', with integrity and maturity. The world at this moment is churning and I think it is a sure sign that even those outside of our borders are in the dark on what to expect. So, I wait. I wait and I pray that this great country that I love will not become something I cannot recognize.
Wayndres