My son Dillon attended a country school years ago that had animals of all sorts. One day while they were doing a pretend “archeological dig” where the students were to uncover class made artifacts, he and another student got into a mud fight. Half way through this fight they discovered the mud they were slinging had been enriched with Llama poo. Both mothers were called to please bring a change of clothing. After watching the debates, reading the stories, and listening to commentators, I feel as if our nation needs new clothes too. Or at least clean ones.
History was made on November 4, 2008. The United States of America voted in Barack Obama as our 44th president. I’m torn only in that, he isn’t the man a lot of us wanted. But according to the numbers 51% of America did. Truth be told though – the republican party failed America in a lot of ways over the past four years and America fought back. Our nation fought back by ousting some really good republican senators, who lost their posts not because of personal failure, but because of their ties to our current president, whose ratings are now below 25% approval. That is the lowest approval rating in my lifetime anyway for an exiting president.
I like W. I don’t agree with everything he does, but I still like him. I do not think it fair that he is judged on the fall out fiscal policies that were set in place during the Clinton administration. This recession was a long time coming. Jeff and I felt the first wave during the Clinton administration when we lost our life savings in the MCI stock scandal. We needed reform before Bush ever stepped into office.
Interesting to me, in this land of Free Speech, is how dirty this election got. The far right called Obama everything from a Marxist to a terrorist, from a Muslim to the anti-christ. I suddenly felt as if our nation had somehow been transported to the McCarthy era, where everyone who didn’t fit the norm was called a communist. Reputations and lives were destroyed in that modern day witch hunt. The far left, were no different. They called McCain out as a “certifiably tooney loons of a man” and ripped Sarah to shreds over not only her Christian beliefs, but her (true) lack of ethics.
If McCain had won – our nation would have prayed hard that he live the full four years. I for one have more faith in Biden‘s abilities to run our nation, than I do Sarah. Choosing her to woo the Hillary supporters backfired. According to CBS news last night, 80% of the women in the exit polls voted for Obama.
Barack, while not my choice for president, is a very well educated, intelligent man with strong ideals. He, like all of his predecessors, has hopes, dreams, and ambitions for this great nation of ours. I find him to be naive and wonder what the realities of being in the position of one of the strongest world leaders will do to him. Even so, our nation has chosen to rest its hope on him. His downfall to me is his stand on life. His voting record shows he supports abortions, and I do not. I rest my hope in God, who still sets kings. He has a greater purpose than my small vision.
Our decision has been made. We live in a land of democracy. Obama won not only the popular vote, but the electoral college as well.
As Tom Browkaw said last night, “When this election is over , we as a nation stop being Democrats and Republicans, we become Americans United and we stand behind our President.”
It’s time both sides hit the showers, put on clean clothes and get on with the business of running our great nation.
I was reading a friend’s article today on New Christian Voices and was sad to discover that his family was threatened this week. As a result of the threat, he asked the editors at NCV to take down his original post. 
Deana O'Hara - Speaker, Comedian, Writer 