A new era in America

Some mixed feelings this morning... Fear mixed with disappointment and frustration. Barack Obama is our new President. The fight continues as it always has. I'm comforted by our system of checks and balances guaranteed by the Constitution. Barack Obama's ability to carry out a socialist utopian agenda will be limited, though aided by a friendly Congress. Though I would not have chosen this path, now that we're here, I'm pleased, oddly, that America will re-learn the costly lesson of what liberalism does to a society. Always beautiful in theory, liberalism is a miserable failure in practice. We've forgotten that lesson and perhaps learning it again will lead to better days years into the future. Perhaps.

On a strange side note... I think it's worth me mentioning that I'm happy for America that we have elected a minority President. It's wrong that many people did it for that purpose alone, but we've crossed a hurdle that we've needed to cross, and -- setting politics aside completely -- it will most certainly be a memorable moment to see a black family walk into the White House. Perhaps the futile and destructive argument over race will lose some of its edge, and perhaps the fact that we have a black President will hamper Al Sharpton's and Jesse Jackson's effort to create victims out of an entire class of people.