On the morning after this historic election, I will make an exception. While the results panned out about how I expected they would, I couldn’t help but hold out hope that somehow, the values on which this country was built would prevail. I held out hope that respect and love for this country and its flag, and service to both, would prevail. While I certainly don’t think John McCain was a stellar candidate, not by a long shot, I don’t understand how anyone could doubt his patriotism, his devotion to our country, and his genuine intent to ultimately do what is right for the United States, based on our founding fathers’ goals and his own experience as a leader on a national level.
I am saddened and even frightened that our country’s values have led us to a day when we have elected a man as commander in chief who does not place his hand over his heart and pledge allegiance to our flag.
My fervent hope now is that I am dead wrong. I hope that Mr. Obama will rally this country, will get people to sit up and take notice, take an interest and take a stand. I hope that a sense of morality and Godliness and a belief in what is right will return to our great nation. I hope that we have not painted a huge bull’s eye on our shores. I hope that this country’s moral compass has not been irrevocably reset-a process begun two administrations ago when the man charged with setting that moral compass defiled the Oval Office.
As an American, it is my duty and my calling to respect the office of the president and the man who holds the title and I will. But I fear that the old adage, “be careful what you wish for,” may hold true now, and with devastating fall-out. Again, I pray I’m wrong, and hope we haven’t crossed a line that will have life-changing consequences for every American.
Until Next Time.
(c) 2008 Joan McCue All Rights Reserved
