Nov

04

2008

A transition of power is about to occur

by Skip

 

Seal of the President of the United States

The voters have spoken – the United States of America will have a new President come January 20th, 2009:

President-elect Barack Obama

Once again, this country will peacefully change those that govern us.  A majority of Americans are happy over this choice of the voters; some – not as much.  But elections matter, and he has won.

Pray for our next President and his Vice-President, Joe Biden.  Pray for our country.  Pray for all of our leaders from the national to the local levels.  They will need it and we are commanded as Christians to do so.

As partisan as I may be, and unlike others that I might point to, I do acknowledge that Mr. Obama will be my President upon his swearing into office.  THAT office is due all of the respect that we can muster and yes, I can respect him as my President. 

No, I may well rail against his policies (ok, I will!) and what the Democrats may vote in as laws of the land, but "like it or not" does not play a role in whether he is my President or not.  No, not my choice, but my fellow Americans have voted him into office.  All I ask at the outset is that he does not sully the honor of that Office as they have served as some who have preceeded him (e.g., Nixon, Clinton).

There will be much needed work to be done to and within the GOP at all levels.  That work begins tomorrow in anticipation of the next election cycle. 

And yes, change will be a part of that work.

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by Skip Murphy

Co-founder of GraniteGrok, my concern is around Individual Liberty and Freedom (and how Government is taking that away from us). My fight, from a Conservative (with small "L" libertarian leanings) and evangelical Christian perspective, is with the Progressives that are forcing a collectivized and secular humanistic future upon us. As TEA Party activist, citizen journalist (and pundit!), my goal is to use the New Media to advance the radical notions of America's Founders back into our culture again.

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  • Danielle DeLisle

    That is very gracious, Skip, and very well said.

  • wolfwalker

    Pray for our next President and his Vice-President, Joe Biden.
    Never.
    He is not my president and never will be. He is a criminal. He is vermin.
    May he have many failures, no successes, and leave office in four years a broken man.

  • Terry Stewart

    In one night we have just become equal to France (before Nicolas Sarkozy)!

  • http://www.twopolitics.com dr weeks

    No more campaign speeches, no more political commercials, phone calls or flyers in the mail. If you voted and your candidate won you now have gloating rights, if they did not win you have ranting and raving rights. But if you did not vote you have no right to complain or to even enter into a political conversation. You gave up your credible voice when you chose not to vote. Whether you agree or disagree with the campaign promises there begins the process of living up to them. One clear message came out of these elections and that is the Republican Party has lost its way. There is no strong leadership, that one charismatic leader that will pull the party out of its dispair. Republicans are going to have to stop apologizing for being Republican, cease the abandonment of conservative values, move away from moderation, pull together as a whole, and immerse themselves into the latest technology advantages. This process has to start now. If the status quo continues the Republican Party will lament in exile for many more elections to come with the possibility of becoming extinct.

  • Randy

    And to the organization that once was the Republican Party, I give you this:
    “I don‘t know about you, but I am impatient with those Republicans who after the last election rushed into print saying, “We must broaden the base of our party”—when what they meant was to fuzz up and blur even more the differences between ourselves and our opponents.” –Ronald Reagan, March 1975
    Ignore this message at your peril and remember it when 2010 and 2012 come around. Fergus Cullen, we start change with you. Leave. NOW. Begone.

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