The United Socialst States of America?

I wish I did not have any unresolved issues about last night's election. I wanted to get up this morning and just accept the judgment of the people and look forward to the next four years. Last night when I realized he was going to win, I wanted to throw my support behind President Elect Obama regardless of how much I wanted to see him keep his job as Senator. But the problem is that no matter how many times I clicked my heels together and wished for home and no matter how hard I tried to be positive, the first few images I saw on the TV this morning were some of the more disturbing things I have seen in a long time.

Have we lost all sense of respect and history? We have forces deployed engaged in combat and are going through some tough economic times meanwhile there were a number of obvious Obama supporters celebrating in front of the White House as the election results were coming in. Once it was obvious that Sen Obama would now be more properly referred to as President Elect Obama, many of these revelers were caught on camera celebrating (somewhere off camera must have been a very large keg).

The problem is that one "gentleman" (I use the term lightly) pulls out a Soviet Flag…yes that red one with the yellow hammer and sickle. So here we are, years after the western world with Reagan, Thatcher and Mulroney at the helm pulled down that same flag freeing millions that had been oppressed under that flag. But even worse I hear that this was not an isolated incident. There were multiple reports of similar displays (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2125944/posts) in other parts of the country.

I don't want to make light of the prolife vs pro-choice issue but I just don't understand in a country where abortion is legal, class four hurricanes break open weak levies, random house fires break out everyday, cars run red lights, how some people are able to survive and make it to the point where they decide to go party to celebrate the victory of a psydo-socialist and wave Lenin's flag around. And for those that are about to claim that those were probably conservative infiltrators that were trying to bring discredit upon the Obama-philes…well I have a response to that…. No self respecting conservative would brave mingling with the unwashed masses and unemployed ex-union members protest…uh I mean celebrating in George W's back yard to wave around a piece of cloth representing a political system and a history that they despise and fought so hard to end – come on people think about it.


Other images and sound bites I have been bombarded with all day is random shots and clips from ordinary folks all the way to the President (the current one) claiming that this election is historical. I appreciate this face and that due to Obama's ethnicity there is something special about his ascension to the presidency. And more importantly I hope that the racists will finally shut the hell up and equally hope we can finally put an end to the hyphen-ization of our country.
First of all Obama's election is not historical in the sense that there have been previous black political leaders – some good (Mandela) and some bad (Idi Amin). There have been black social leaders (Martin Luther King), and religious leaders (Bishop Tutu). Just because someone is American and accomplishes something does not make it more of an achievement. In other words, the fact that Obama will be our 44th president is history in the very fact because he will be our 44th president and will represent a peaceful change of government during a time of conflict and crisis, not because of what color his skin is or what his last name is. In other words we can finally be equal to the rest of the world where anyone can become the leader of their nation, where women have been the leaders of Pakistan, Great Britain, and Israel and where an Asian led an Indian-Hispanic country (Fujimori in Peru).


Another good result of this election might be that maybe we can finally come to terms with the fact that even our so called poor-class has luxuries that those living in most other parts of the world could only dream of calling their own. I am not denying there is prejudice out there in our country but at least in the U.S. we do not generally get shot or blown up solely due to our religion or what tribe we belong to (we just get mugged or stabbed when we wear the wrong color shirt to the mall or have the audacity to have a nice watch and be walking in the wrong neighborhood.


Now that Obama has achieved the right to fill the most esteemed job in the land, the head of the strongest most successful nation on Earth maybe it is time that we stop trying to divide each other into race and religions and get on with being Americans. I appreciate the fact some people will get emotional and that they are proud to see that race is no longer a factor. But if so then consider that all day on the radio and TV I have heard various black leaders and people on the street talk about how it is time that the white man is no longer in charge, and how they are surprised that non-black people (I assume they mean white and Hispanic) voted for Obama and that now that a black man is in office that the unrepresented will finally be spoken for and taken care of. These are the things I have issues with this is no better than David Duke spouting off his beliefs.

When a man or woman is a Republican and is also black, Hispanic, or a woman they don't count. Only when a liberal succeeds is it "about time" and a historic moment. I am less happy for Obama's achievement today than I am sad about the missed opport unities of Lynn Swann in PA, Michael Steele in MD, Sarah Palin for VP, Clarence Thomas, or Condelizza Rice. All of these people were called the most awful things by people of all races and creeds because they were conservatives, without regard to their success. Maybe now we can finally play fair and stop qualifying each achievement by someone's race or religion…well at least until we have a one-armed Jamaican-Jewish transsexual running for president THEN we can all celebrate – but please friends, leave the hammer and sickle at home.