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President-Elect Barack Obama
The American people have chosen a new Chief Magistrate.
Congratulations to President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama.
All Americans of faith should pray for him and his family despite any political differences. He defeated a true American hero and worthy opponent in John McCain. My candidate lost, but We the People have spoken and it is the duty of us all to respect our Republic’s collective choice.
Those of us that love America must understand that we have only one Executive leader at a time and, especially only one Commander-in-Chief at a time. He will be the face of America to the world, friends and foes alike. His foreign policy will be America’s foreign policy. If his doesn’t succeed, none will, and especially in this area, I urge (just as I did from Reagan-Bush 43), that we try and present a unified front to the world, so long as the United States remains the beacon of Liberty.
He deserves the benefit of the doubt during the transition and after Inauguration Day. There were many good reasons to oppose his election based on his past record, but his Presidency must be judged on what he does from this day forward.
Despite my great disappointment in what I see as a mistaken choice on the part of the majority of Americans last night, I must admit one point of great pride in my country.
As I discussed before the election, one of the driving forces of my life has been the civil rights struggle, especially in my beloved South. In the early 70s I endured taunts from racists due to my family’s integration efforts and my close black friends. My dream was always that of Martin Luther King’s, (even if it hasn’t always been Obama’s) which was that people of all races could achieve the American Dream through character and hard work. I watched America and the South slowly but surely achieve that dream many years ago despite the refusal of many to surrender the race victim label under a false definition of civil rights.
So, it is with great pride for me that my chosen Party of Lincoln elevated Clarence Thomas, and Condoleezza Rice. And though I left the Democratic Party after 18 years of activism in 2000, I was overjoyed when my former Democrat friends in the Palmetto State proved their color-blindness and gave Obama victory in their primary earlier this year.
The scene last night proves what I have known for at least 20 years. America has lived up to its creed. In America, it is self-evident:
All men are created equal, and his policies on civil rights and executions of the law in the years ahead will be equally examined with those of his predecessors, as Chief Magistrate, here at the Examiner.
All Presidents are also created equal.
"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race." – The Chief Justice of the United States, John Roberts
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
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