(My Original Blog Post: http://semperjase.com/?p=771)
President Obama was inaugurated yesterday as the 44th President of the United States of America. I was in a training class and later had an unexpected invite to go to a Denver Nuggets game (to sit in a suite no less) so I didn't have time to write on that momentous day. It is time for me to note my observations now.
Our training class did get a break to watch the swearing in and the inaugural address. It was a great moment to be an American. And I'm not talking about Obama's race. Yes, it was historic to see the first black man sworn in. I've also said before that true racial equality won't exist until there is a "first black to do X" and not be labeled as the "first black to do X."
What I appreciated even more was witnessing the 43rd consecutive peaceful transfer of executive power in this country - a streak the runs over 200 years. That is a stretch unparalleled in the world.
I disagree with Obama's stated economic policies. I'm convinced his Keynesian economic policies will only worsen our economic recession like FDR's policies extended the Great Depression.
Even so, our society has accepted that elections determine which leaders. Those who claimed that "Bush is not my President" were wrong, just as those who want to say "Obama is not my President" are wrong. Obama is my President. I will vote against him in 2012 but that doesn't change the reality that I am an American and we one President - no more, no less and that President is Barack Obama.
Let us pray that God grants him wisdom.
