Inauguration Blues

On balance, the United States is a good nation as such things go, particularly when compared with nations less burdened with dreams of idealism and hope. As a nation, we've grown over our brief life and like any young creature some of that growth has been positive, some less so, and a fair amount of growth remains to be done.

Some few brief hours ago , for greater or lesser values of black, I am told we inaugurated our first black President. It is my hope that he governs, to the extent he is able, as the President of the entire United States - and not merely the black citizens thereof; it is a promise he has offered, and I hope he has the character to carry through on that promise. It is my hope he leads an administration that respects differences and the value of diversity outside of his liberal swimming pool, but I am not optimistic.

I object not to a black President, I object to a President with the past political positions and points of origin of Barack Obama. I would not mind debating politics over dinner with the man, but I cannot bring myself to enthusiasm for an Obama Presidency.

The time to build the counter-revolution - whether it culiminates in 2010, 2012, or (heaven forfend) in 2016 - is now. It is time to cultivate candidates for office for the 2010 races (and locally, the 2009 races), to seek out viable Presidential candidates for 2012, to raise money, and build alliances.

If Obama surprises and doesn't try and impose some heavy-handed euro-socialist vision on the United States anti-thetical to personal freedoms - well and good. But should he do so, the time to prepare is now...not when the biowaste is impacting the rotary oscilator.