The Dawn of a New Day

I decided that it was time to get back into the swing of things with the blog. I was going to wait until the beginning of 2009, but figured it was time to get back into it. So, let's begin.

It is an amazing time to be an American. John McCain was right. The voters spoke and they spoke clearly. It feels as if we are coming out of some very dark times and we can only hope that brighter days are ahead. I watched McCain's concession speech and thought, "where was THIS John McCain during the campaign?" Why he choose to cling to the weak Obama associations, Joe the Plumber, and the "spread the wealth" talking points we may never know. I'm sure his campaign manager instructed him to do this. Bad move.

Some very interesting news has surfaced about Governor Palin. It turns out that her wardrobe exceeded the $150,000 previously thought. I'd like to know when the wardrobe will be turned over to charity. The other item that Fox News reported was that Palin, at the very beginning of her short relationship with John McCain, did not know that Africa was a continent (she thought it was a country). Where is "Jay Walking" (the Tonight Show segment) when you need it?!

There was the McCain camp being upset that she was talking to a foreign leader... which you may have heard turned out to be a prank from a Canadian radio station. There are also reports that she answered her hotel room door in a towel when two McCain staffers paid her a visit during the Republican National Convention.

There is no way to know if some of these things are actually true or not. The answer is probably somewhere in the middle. But, even so, that still scares me.

Just think... she could have been Vice-President... or even President had something happened to McCain... America dodged a bullet on this one.

We now have the first black president. America has come a long way since the days before when another man from the state of Illinois, Abe Lincoln, went to Washington to be our President.