You are right; perhaps I should have qualified that by saying the liberals like the ones that she was referring to in this post. There’s no way that I believe that there would have been NO angry protests if McCain had been elected. There was entirely too much of that in the last 4/8 years against Bush. The far left liberals (and the mainstream media) made it very clear that Obama was the only one, and I can imagine that they would have protested just as angrily the inauguration of a McCain/Palin administration. Liberals like them seem to hate anything that even smells of conservative. Would that we could all accept our differences and discuss them without hateful argument. Whoever our leaders are, they deserve our respect, whether we agree with their policies or not.

He was just a man, elected to one of the toughest offices in America during one of our darkest moments and who made mistakes.

President Obama has my full support as an American and as a Christian (as I am instructed in Scripture to hold him in prayer faithfully).  But he is not a rock star nor a celebrity, and it troubles me the apppearance of worship in the crowds.

I was proud of our country that we have come so far that an African American President can take the oath of office on the same steps that were constructed by slave labor, but I fear we are taking this way too far.

I want to see President Obama succeed as that will mean we succeed as a nation, but ONLY as his plans follow God’s guidance.  If he continues with his OWN agenda, I fear for our nation.  May he and his cabinet and congress learn to seek God’s face in all that they do, regardless of popular opinion.

Then we will truly be blessed, as he said in his remarks yesterday, “God bless America.”

Come Lord Jesus….that is my main thought in all of this. We are going to see our lives change…and not for the better.  Many rights will be stripped away.  My rights to homeschool, safety for the unborn, the covenant of marriage….so much!

I fully expect that Obama will get the same teasing that Bush did, when he messes up (and he will). I hope that he accepts it with the same good nature that President Bush did. He really rolled with the punches and kept doing what he thought was best for our country.

I do want to add that I could not have been more impressed with the behavior of President Bush. He was a perfect gentleman, and he and Laura could not have been more gracious. They are a wonderful example to all of us about how we should behave in similar situations. (I know that I need those kinds of mentors in my life, whether I know them in real life or not.)

I hope that we can turn back to being more positive. You are a fantastic mother and author, and I hope to read more encouraging posts in the future.

“Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think about such things.”

Phillippians 4:8

I also think that perhaps the lack of protest and mass numbers of people yesterday was due to one key factor. They were there celebrating a change in the direction of the leadership, rather than just a change in the actual person sitting in the chair.  I think there could have been reason for peaceful protests should the day have brought another 4 years of Bush policy in the White House.  Couldn’t we just look at the millions of people present as a testament to the nature of the group?  No arrests and riots mean happy people there to celebrate their chosen leader.  See what I mean… glass half full/half empty concept, I guess. 

~Katie