Where Do We Go From Here?
Barack Obama is your President Elect, like it or not. No doubt many of us suddenly have the same question keeping us up at night… Now what?
Well, so far we know he’s appointed partisan “bulldog” Rahm Emanuel as White House Chief of staff and
Rahm Emanuel reportedly sent a dead fish to a pollster he didn't like.
word on the street has John Kerry as Secretary of State… This while Joe Lieberman is trying to fend off being removed from his postion as chair for The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee because of “unfavorable comments” made regarding Obama and the Democrats during the election. In fact, since they obviously don’t need Lieberman to get their sixty seats, there’s now talks of Lieberman caucusing with The GOP… So much for reaching across the isle.
Apparently, with all the fervor around dealing with appointees and disciplining non-believers, somebody forgot to pay Obama’s campaign workers. Law enforcement had to be called to a campaign head quarters in Indianapolis to control an angry mob who had not been paid for last minute canvassing. Many of these workers were paid with pre-paid credit cards.
While I think this is truly a proud moment in American history when we’re able to elect a man of mixed ethnicity to The Presidency, I still find myself wondering, at what cost? The question of Obama’s citizenship seems to have evaporated in the breeze… Even staunch conservative radio host Glenn Beck dismissed a caller this morning who expressed continuing concern of this yet unresolved issue… Suddenly we’ve set the precedent in this country that despite the words of The Constitution, you no longer have to be a confirmed, natural born U.S. citizen to become President. This is insanity.
All my life I’ve had difficulty when put in the position of being held accountable to a person or entity who takes a “do what I say, not what I do” approach to their leadership role. Suddenly, I’m feeling that stink of hypocrisy wafting down over me from a height I never thought possible.
While it’s too early to tell for sure, were we go from here is still cloudy at best. All we can do is watch, and wait… I wish our new President Elect all the best and pray that my fears about him are wrong, for if I am wrong I will be the first to sing his praises and rejoice in the betterment of America. Naturally, that sword will swing both ways.
