Inauguration, President Barack Obama – A Historic Day
Politics — By Dustin R. Steeve on January 20, 2009 at 1:00 pmIf you are a regular reader of this blog, you are well aware that I do not support many of the stated policies of the new president. However, none of that matters today.
Today is a historic day.
Today is a day of celebration. For all, not merely the victors.
Today the United States peacefully, and joyously, celebrated the conclusion of one presidency and the beginning of another.
Today the place of the Constitution was affirmed as the governing document of this democracy to which all adhere, even the president. In accordance with Article II, Section I, the president solemnly affirmed that he would faithfully execute the Office of the President of the United States, and would to the best of his Ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Today two exceptional leaders, elected to the highest office in the foremost nation on earth, demonstrated the dignity, respect, and goodwill that makes us all proud of our political system.
Today a black man was elected to unite, inspire and lead a nation once divided by war over the question of his ancestors’ humanity.
Today one prominent dream was fulfilled, and millions more made.
Today Whitehouse.gov changed its website. The new president has now helped new media solidify its place as a source for the substance of our conversations.
Today many of my peers celebrated the election of their candidate of choice. The remainder of my peers await 2012 when they will have the opportunity to elect a candidate of their choice. Today all my peers are thinking about and trust the American political process and their ability to meaningfully participate in it.
Today old and young lived to see the heritage and traditions of the American project continued to another presidency.
For all of these reasons, today is a historic day. Congratulations President Barack Obama.
*** Other thoughts from Christians across the web ***
Al Mohler offers a prayer for President Barack Obama:
Father, protect this president, we pray. We pray that you will surround this president and his family, along with all our leaders, with your protection and sustenance. May he be protected from evil acts and evil intentions, and may his family be protected from all evil and harm.
We pray that the Obama family will be drawn together as they move into the White House, and that they will know great joy in their family life. We are thankful for the example Barack and Michelle Obama have set as parents. Father, protect those precious girls in every way — including the protection of their hearts as they see their father often criticized and as he is away from them on business of state. May their years in the White House bring them all even closer together.
John Mark Reynolds writes on the significance of this day as a day of triumph over racism and bigotry:
Tags: historic day, inauguration, President Barack ObamaThe election of President Obama is a joyful break from bigotry in American politics and an affirmation of the best of the American tradition. Every decent citizen will be happy to see evidence of redemption from the original American sin of slavery. For one day it is appropriate to set aside partisan differences and enjoy our common American victory.
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Today is a day to be a cheerful and joyful American.
When Obama takes the Oath of Office on Lincoln’s Bible both racists and secular ideologues will rage, but people of good will in all parties will rejoice. President Obama is our president and today we honor his historic achievement with hesitation or hedging.
God save the President of the United States Barack Obama.
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I agree. Today is a day to celebrate how far our country has come. I wrote a post on my blog about this.
I do agree that this probably marks the milestone when racism is officially condemned to the covert underbelly of our society. I just wish it had been Condi Rice.
i don’t doubt that Obama will be a vast improvement for the U.S. and the rest of the world
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD97OVJ4PNw&eurl=http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/01/this_must_be_a_very_hard_quest.php
There is only way to respond to the Obamination that is going to be the next 4 years: we need more videos like this showing hard-working Christians getting their message out. I think videos documenting the Christian view and science behind saving embryos would also be very helpful.
God bless.
the president solemnly affirmed that he would faithfully execute the Office of the President of the United States, and would to the best of his Ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States
And you believed him? A Republican president couldn’t hold to that promise, but you think a Democrat who’s even further to the left will…because he said so???
Today all my peers are thinking about and trust the American political process and their ability to meaningfully participate in it.
I hate to give it to you so straight, but your peers are naive. I can only shake my head and sigh when even thinking people in this country don’t see the looming end of the republic on the horizon. Your vote makes no difference whatsoever any more. We have a government that has continued to grow and increase its power in a way never intended by our Constitution…blurring the lines between public and private…nationalizing whatever it feels like nationalizing…taking the people’s money for whatever use it wants…continuing to treat the symptoms with the disease (i.e. continuing to pump air into the economic bubble). We just suffered through one of the worst presidents in our history and the new guy coming in is so utterly non-differentiated from him philosophically that I wonder if the people who fall for “HopeChange” and “Yes we can” are mentally ill. Seriously, how is Obama going to govern any differently than Bush? Here’s yet another guy who thinks Big Government has all the answers…and wants to provide us even more of the same travesties we’ve seen over the past year. McCain would have been no different. I’ll say it one last time… your vote makes no difference… no matter who you voted for, you’re getting pretty much the same candidate. How can anyone be happy about “historic” times such as these? I cry for my country when I sit back and watch how its people are so happy to just let it, and its Constitution, go to waste.
JJ says the world is ending, check got it. Thanks for the update.
JJ,
Boonton may be flippant about your remarks, but that is because perhaps he ought to spend more time reading Cicero and less time mocking people like you who are rightly concerned about each citizen’s willing surrender of their personal freedoms to Government handouts.
I think a lot of my peers were swept up in an excellently executed marketing scheme. The Obama people correctly identified a felt need by many Americans. They crafted a slogan that spoke to the felt need – the slogan of “change” and “hope.” They broadcast their slogan through every media outlet that young and old alike go to as a source for their conversation points of the day. They made Barack Obama out to be famous, a celebrity. They crafted his image, they branded his campaign, and with a warm bath of words they attempted to wash away the media generated anti-Bush filth that Americans have been mired in for eight years.
Most of my peers lack the critical thinking skills to see through the huff and puff of the Obama campaign. I do not judge them for that. Were it not for the excellent education I received at Torrey Honors, I would have passed through university life with a degree polished by a perfect GPA and nothing to show for it. I would not have been able to see through the fluff either. We young people are always idealists and Barack Obama, it was told to us by everyone we trust (in the media), was ideal.
But JJ, I believe that the only response that we can have to times like these is to go back to our roots. To love those elements of our heritage that helped form this union. To joyously participate in the traditions that move the hearts of each and every American to celebration. To think about why it is that we believe power ought to be in the hands of citizens. To think about what human rights ought to look like for us, and for our enemies. Though I believe that President Obama’s legal philosophy ultimately undermines the authority of the Constitution, I am confident that President Obama is not bigger than the Constitution nor would he be bigger than an American public who, having been re-educated in the western ideas that inspired the mind and moved the hands of Madison, firmly believed in its ability to speak truth to us today.
JJ, we cannot despair. For the sake of the union and for the love of our neighbors, we must exercise our freedom to start schools that focus on cultivating students’ critical thinking and appreciation of the arts, history, music, math, science, philosophy, and theology. We must move away from silly, intellectually vacuous “studies” programs and move back into pursuit of wisdom and the universal truths that have inspired young and old across time and physical space. All is not lost so long as people like you and I can wake our fellow Americans from the dazzle that stupefies their reasoning and re-cultivate their hearts and minds to love the higher truths that inspired those who came before us to found this great nation the United States of America.
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