So if his white mother, who had been knocked up by his African father had gone through this post 1973... well let's just say it does make one wonder if his own "burden" of his presence to her would've allowed him to become "44."

So when does someone get to point out the honest truth that voting someone purely on the basis of their race, is as racist as voting against someone for the same reason?

Just asking yo...

Oh, and did you hear, we have an African American in the White House now, one who parts the oceans, and makes unicorns fly (and excrete rainbows), and will bring world peace with the wave of his palm, and cause all bad guys to engage in conversations that will almost immediately cause them to surrender their evil intent...

 

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1. My "Black President" - racial utopia, or just plain race warfare?:

Open and Transparent?

The Official Obama administration website has published the new President's homosexual agenda. And for all the centrist moves he had made on national security, economic policy and the like, the raving lunatic leftist in him is beginning to show... on only day 2.

Here's the highlights:
- Expansion of hate crimes: It needs to be understood that our legal code judges behavior not thoughts. And while hate crimes have been around for some time they are completely unnecessary. If hate in someone's heart produces a criminal act the act itself is punishable by law. With the emergence of hate crimes what we have is someone attempting to decide the thoughts of a person. As it is applied to the homosexual issue specifically the activists who engage in homosexual behavior have only one goal: to shut down any voices that are in disagreement with homosexual behavior. Their primary target in "expanding" hate crimes, is to literally shut off the practice of free speech, and free exercise of faith. Obama's first plank in his LBGT agenda is to expand hate crimes, and thus target men and women of faith. (Interestingly enough Mr. Obama has NO evangelical Christians in his cabinet, after supposedly campaigning as one...)
- Pushing ENDA legislation: The "Employment Non-Discrimination Act" sounds good by its title. But in its substance it is designed to force even faith based institutions to retain active homosexuals on the employment rolls of organizations, corporations, etc. This would mean that a church would not be able to dismiss a pastoral member caught in what their own doctrine would state as sin. This would mean that you could not disqualify an active homosexual from being considered for employment as the church's youth pastor.
- Opposes any ban on redefined marriage: President Obama must have been lying through his teeth as he campaigned for President because he told an awful lot of evangelicals that he opposes redefining the institution of marriage to include other creative sexual unions. But now - his official policy seems to state the exact opposite. He thusly now opposes the people who oppose changing the definition of marriage. If you are a believer, and you believed him when he campaigned - consider yourself a victim of his bait and switch.
- Repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell": President Obama will lose the good will of the American service men and women who are presently serving for making this his policy. Gay and Straight. Having had this conversation with military men and women for some time, I can assure you the military members have no desire to see or have to deal with the issue of sexual harrassment in the baracks. This is why we do not house men and women in the same quarters. Encouraging flamboyant display of sexual tendencies in the living quarters would likely lead to an increase of unwanted advances, and likewise unwanted assault. This is a really dumb idea, and the President is foolish to move forward with it.
- Get more kids in homosexual homes: The social data is replete with how bad an idea this is. But the truth is, homosexual couples need adoption in order to make their "families" "look" "normal." And if they are to be successful in indoctrinating the next generation so as to believe that two men are just as sexually whole as a man and a woman then they will need to "re-educate" them from an early age. An education that all too often would be far too graphic, and completely inappropriate. And in heterosexual households would be considered harrassment or molestation.

I told the readers of this blog two days ago that I would wait to criticize the President until we knew details of his policies.

Well surprise--we made it all of 48 hours...

I'm slated to be with the gang on Fox News this morning starting 10:30am. Join us by clicking here.

Hmmm... I wonder what we might discuss this morning...

"The day, and the turnout, will be remembered more than the substance."

That quote I believe can properly be attributed to Brit Hume from earlier tonight on one of the many continuous hours of non-stop cable news coverage. If it is from someone else... my apologies.

But it is accurate.

Nearly everything about today is symbolic, filled with expectation, and largely emotional. No one can fight it, and those who would even attempt would be foolish to try.

For me the day began in Salt Lake City, Utah where in my hotel room this morning I watched the early reports live from the mall as the discussion began to be about the need to shut down access for the people to come and see their next President take his oath.

As my blogging has personally been on a bit of a sabbatical in terms of criticisms towards the incoming President, I felt strongly that once the nation had spoken with definitive (though not landslide) voice, the man deserves a chance to begin his administration and stewardship of our nation and to be judged by his merits based on his decisions and his policies.

I did take the liberty to do a number of status updates on my facebook/twitter status that poked significant fun at the crazed, irrational, and hyperbolic superlatives that were used to praise a man, who is still largely untested, and unproven.

Ironically those are the very reasons I've observed my somewhat self-imposed embargo. Someone who is untested and unproven may in fact be a strong leader. His ideas and approaches to solving the problems and challenges that we face as a nation may be the right answers. Simply because he is untested and unproven does not mean he is disqualified.

And there are a couple of things I actually do really like about the image of who this man is. (Keeping in mind that I was the first pundit to predict that this day would occur, and also strongly hoping it in fact would not come true I am trying to give you context.)

1. The Obama family. The picture of the intact black family occupying the White House is a picture that is long overdue. Since emancipation there were African Americans who served at the highest levels of government for both parties. In the Bush administration more African Americans were in cabinet positions than any in history. (There were even more than the current nominees of the Obama administration to date.) But given the fact that the majority of what is portrayed as the black family experience in America is distorted by images of gangs, rappers, hip-hop, and all that goes with it, an intact husband, wife, and children is an image that needs to be championed more--especially for black America.

2. His pragmatism. One of the additional reasons I am somewhat hopeful that Obama may not be the hardened leftist he had been up until this election is that as soon as he was elected he abandoned some of the biggest problematic policy positions. Particularly he changed his approach and view on the global war on terror. I don't know what happened from November 2 to November 3rd, but it seems that once he began to receive his daily national security briefings ALL discussion of immediate Iraq withdrawal, and bringing all the troops home from the war on terror evaporated completely. In addition, his decision to keep Petraeus at CentCom, Bush appointee at Secretary of Defense Mr. Gates at the Pentagon, and to keep the Iraq liberation and surge in motion, tells us that he is willing to move away from the extremist elements on the left when it really is on the line.

3. His invocation choice. Rick Warren who has carried a lot of controversy with him for standing up for the protection of marriage in the state of California, prayed (some would call surprising) a prayer packed with substance. Even ending it with the name of Jesus in several different languages. Obama's easy political decision could have been to pull him off the program and put someone else in the slot who was not such a lightening rod of controversy. But he chose to stand by the choice of Warren, and allowed Warren to be as articulate to the issue as he wished.

If there is an honest critical confession to be had about Obama's election, transition, and swearing in it is this.

Those of you who have bought into the hype of Obama being the second coming of The Christ have been set up for massive disappointment. In a lot of ways history made it possible for Obama to succeed on this point almost by chance. The soaring rhetoric of the campaign came with little detail and even less transparency. Talking about Hope and Change today is easy, but tomorrow morning he faces the issues of those who wish to kill us, an economy that needs energizing--not bailing out, and the intimidation that his far left supporters will begin exerting against him immediately.

His record is not one that gives me any reason that he will succeed. He's just not had much success on any of the elected office levels that he has held in the past. I mean he was only in office for something like 180 days before making his decision to abandon the U.S. Senate.

The time to talk about better days is waning. The time to blame the previous administration has run out. At 7am tomorrow President Bush will be bringing Laura a cup of coffee. Tomorrow at 7am in Washington DC President Obama will be told of grave threats, face still unconfirmed cabinet officials, need to wrestle with even his own partisan leaders in the Congress to begin to get some policy ideas rolling.

Tomorrow his rhetoric begins to be measured by his actions.

But in fairness, he's earned the right to put his unproven, and untested ideas into play.

So for the moment of historical significance that this day represents, it will fade quick and we will all have our perceptions impacted and likely changed based on the substance that we have yet had the chance to see. 

That is the REAL drama of America's peaceful transfer of power, and one that has been historic to observe... every time it has happened.

On this day for the past administrations, at least the ones I can remember when they walked out to the introduction as they were being announced at their ceremonies went like this...

"Ronald Wilson Reagan"

"George Herbert Walker Bush"

"William Jefferson Clinton"

"George Walker Bush"

and today...

"Barack 'H.' Obama"

hmm... something within me feels so robbed...

LOOK OUT HUGH!