No more excuses…

Conservatives have always known America is a country that celebrates hard work and ability. Liberals have carried around some unfounded guilt about how racism has kept the minorities and especially black Americans down. It looks like America really isn’t a racist nation as liberals suggest. It is a nation that rewards hard work and ability as conservatives suggest. America elected a black president, and the question to liberals is; can we now agree that anyone that wants to achieve, can achieve?

Obama can now say to all Americans that individual hard work not government programs is what dreams are made of. Will Obama now do what he said he would in the campaign; review and eliminate all of the government programs that have not achieved the mission they were created for, including affirmative action? Time will tell.

It is not the delivery of eloquent words that make a president a great figure but the implementation of sound policies. Will Obama force more government on America or reduce the chains of government that have stolen the hopes and dreams of so many especially in his own community. He made a very inspiring speech last night that offered some glimmer of concession to true American values and not feel good liberal ones - but the jury is out. Will he govern as his past suggests or the rhetoric of his campaign?

Voters last night rejected George Bush and the message of John McCain, both men were not able to articulate or implement the American vision. Americans are pragmatists when it comes to politics but don’t mistake pragmatism for liberal ideology. Americans believe the fruits of individual hard work should be rewarded to the people that do the work. Americans are the most compassionate and giving people because they want to be not because they are forced to be by confiscatory tax policy. We love our military and the mission of protecting freedom around the world but we get tired quickly if those people do not step up and show their own commitment to freedom. We believe in free speech not political correctness. We believe in equal opportunity not equal outcome. We believe that God has blessed us and it is OK to express that on any property. We agree that atheists have rights but not the right to deny us ours. The majority of Americans want to choose life but are extremely suspicious that a government that can’t do anything right should be allowed to legislate the womb. Americans want to trust their government but politicians have made that impossible. Big government and big corporations are very much the same; they have no core values. Americans have lost all faith in a media whose job it is to investigate and report but only do that for candidates with an R next to their name. Americans do want change but a change that reflects the American values that made us great not some change toward the values of Europe or the rest of the world.

America will watch Obama closely and determine whether or not he promotes spreading the wealth of the people that work hard, or spreading the opportunity to work hard and keep our wealth. One will make him a great president; the other will make him a typical liberal. Obama will decide how history will judge him. He seems like a guy that wants to be great so I believe he will choose to change his past leanings for a more pragmatist approach to the future. His decision will help us to decide if he is a one term empty suit or a two term president deserving of a truly historical place in American history…