Wednesday, November 5, 2008

President OBAMA. My reactions, fears and hopes.

Watching with my buddies from work as the electoral votes piled up in Obama's favor, I cheered and watched as he pulled away from McCain with his measly hundred or so electorals. My first reaction to Obama being elected Prez was joy. I liked Obama through-out his campaign because he was very open, non-secretive and strait forward. I once saw one of his ads reading "read Obama's plan on (I forget what) at obama.com" This really just makes me respect him for his own personal drive to respect the social contract within all classes (even if he does focus on the middle class).
Having missed McCain's speech, I had to catch up on it at home, but as I watched it I found new-found respect for McCain rising within me. I was surprised. During the campaign McCain was the one who was the most nasty in my opinion. Especially during the debates, also I never really herd him say a lot about what he was actually going to do, from what I herd he was always just bashing Obama. He really came out and displayed what I saw to be his true self in his speech on electiong night.
One of the biggest things that scared me about this election was Sarah Palin. The mere thought of her being a "heartbeat away" from the president of the united states was a shocking one. With her strong religious beliefs she would have certainly have brought religion into the white house and it would have influenced her decisions. This in my opinion is unacceptable. I have nothing against you using religion in your personal life to help sort out anything you might need help with, but the president must be able to "not blink" and use logic and political know-how to choose what would be best for the entire country. If religion was mandatory and everyone was of one faith it would be entirely different.
I hope that Obama will be able to pull our country out of the hole that Bush has dug us into. I feel that Obama has the determination, and the drive I just hope he can do it. One of McCain's ads rang a bell of truth with me despite my mind-set. It said that "Presidents are elected to lead us. They are elected to guide us through the storm. Obama is in-experienced" or something close to that. Anyway it made me think, that even though Obama has been in the political spotlight before, with his 2004 speech The Audacity of Hope to quote another of McCain's ads; "This will be Obama's first Crisis."

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Jack Emmerson

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