Editorial Commentary: Today's Inauguration...

I am writing this as I witness today's events unfolding. I'm a little annoyed that I have to watch this on CNN.com instead of my preferred Foxnews.com. Foxnews just wasn't coming through for me, so I switched.

I wasn't planning on participating in any way with the events of today's ceremonies, but I couldn't deny that what we're witnessing is a piece of history. I did not vote for Barack Obama. I do not agree with what he stood for during his campaign. The things he has done and said since the election has given me shivers - but not in the way the masses of drooling, idolizing fans have. They're the kind of shivers I get when I read about the great dictators of the 20th Century.

Ugh. Enough with the "Obama" chanting. Do they really understand that he is not the messiah? Certainly, he has gained greater following and hero-worship than actual Messiah did when he was on the Earth.

I can't even imagine what George W. Bush feels at this moment. I know what I feel. I watch as still-the-President George W. Bush walks down the hall towards the doors to the platform where he will hand the post over to Barack Obama and I am filled with a sense of all that we overcame and experienced during President Bush's tenure. Mostly I remember 9-11 and the events of that day that, like it or not, defined the next 7 and a half years of the 43rd Presidency of the United States. I wonder, with Barack Obama and the masses of people who believe he is going to redeem us from all our social ills, what is going to lie in store for us for the next 2 years?

I wonder about the next two years, because that is how long the conservatives and religious right of this country have to find good people to elect in the next congressional election - for it is they who are most likely to keep President Obama in check. For now, he has great potential to do whatever he wants.

And now, here comes Joe Biden - looking as brainless and slightly intoxicated as ever with a plastic, painted-on grin. I can't look at him without remembering the lies and disgusting way in which he treated Clarence Thomas during Justice Thomas' confirmation hearings for the US Supreme Court. Joe Biden is just one more reason I don't trust Barack Obama.

Ugh. Harry Reid. I went to church with him and thought him, well, retarded. I hate to insult the mentally challenged, but nothing else comes to mind at the moment.

Oh look - Nancy Pelosi. What a waste of oxygen. Hey Al - we may have found the REAL reason for Global warming (ever check the CO2 levels hovering over the Capital when congress is in session?).

Barack H. Obama. Interesting switch there - - everyone else got their FULL name read, but I'm guessing due to the overuse and the feeling that everyone gets when hearing "Hussein" that they left it off on purpose.

Okay. The chanting again. My goodness, if people loved Christ they way they love Obama, what a great place this world would be!

A co-worker just passed by my desk and invited me to come into the department library where they had the proceedings on and clapped when the swearing in was completed. I was glad that I did not join them. I wanted to be here and recording my reactions to the events, but more so – I did not want to join in with them. Comments such as “this is so wonderful” and the like could be heard as tears were being shed. What is so wonderful about this? What Obama going to do that is so different from anyone else? Nothing.

I’m grumpy now. Good and grumpy. I’m surrounded by people in a glow of Obama veneration. I am entrenched in pro-Obama homilies. Obamalies. For an Obamanation.

Well, what did we expect? For decades we’ve revered “free thinkers” and not independent thinkers. Free thinking is only free from thinking. We’ve preached freedom as being free from morals and free from working. We want free money and freedom from the work necessary to earn that money. We want to be free to pursue happiness and not joy.

Obama’s speech is laden with all kinds of socialist rhetoric (“the markets need a watchful eye”, etc.). A new era of the new deal is being born. Woodrow Wilson and FDR would be proud. George Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and the rest are puking in their graves. I am puking at my desk. I am timorous of what this means for my country and for my life. For now, I will continue to cling to my God and guns and pay off my debts and pay off my mortgage with great fervor.