Post Election Thoughts

Aaron or Nate asked me the other day when I was going to post another rant, specifically wanting to know my thoughts on the elections. So here it is.

While I am not pleased with having Barack Obama as our President, there is nothing you or I and anyone else can do about it. He won the election. What can we do? We can support him in his efforts to lead our country. We can pray for him and hope that he makes good decisions. I think more importantly though, we should pray for the members of congress to make good decisions since they are really ones that propose and make the laws. We can also oppose him and congress when together they make bad decisions that lead the country down the wrong paths.

I have a friend at work who has said on a number of occasions that he will take his family and move to Australia if Obama won the election. To date he has not followed through on his threat. I have repeatedly told him that moving to Australia isn't the answer to his or the country's problems. I remember four years ago when Bush won the elections and half of Hollywood threatened to move to another country. I don't think that any of them followed through on their idle threats either. Although some of them could have done society a favor by moving to another planet (Britney Spears, Lindsey Lohan, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, etc. to name a few). On a few occasions I told my friend that maybe Obama was foreordained to be the President to take us into the millenium or he will be the one that causes the "constitution to hang by a thread." Regardless, it is what is and life goes on. So get over it.

John McCain's problem was that he was campaigning against two people, Barack Obama and George Bush. There were too many independent voters that felt that John McCain and the Republican party would continue Bush's policies. Lets face it George Bush is about as unpopular these days as a BYU fan in Salt Lake County during rivalry week. There was no way John McCain could escape from under the shadow of George Bush and beat Obama in the election. It was an impossible task. I also think that the Republican party has some serious leadership issues that has damaged the party. Until a true leader emerges to lead the Republican party, conservatives will continue to suffer loses in Congress. I maybe wrong and I hope I am.