This blog is going on a diet!!!

By that I mean for at least one month, I am not going to discuss politics or the government. It has corrupted the pages of this blog for the past several posts as you can see. Let's hope I have the discipline to adhere to this diet.

Before it goes into effect though... you probably want to know my feelings towards the election outcome though. Even though (as you can probably tell) I voted for McCain, I am not "Mr. Bitter Conservative" today. I am actually pretty darn proud of the election. Our nation whom just 40-50 years ago considered segregation acceptable has overcome that and elected our first black (or African American/culturally diverse/*insert desired non-offensive politically correct term* here) president. I think it is wonderful to live in a nation where a man can rise up from a difficult upbringing and become our president regardless of the color of their skin. The key word to that statement is "our". He is our... America's President, regardless of weather you are democrat/republican, liberal/conservative, black/white, etc. He has been fairly elected as my President... as our President.

As such, I will give him the benefit of the doubt. It is up to him to lead me as a citizen of this great nation. It is up to him to do a great job or to completely screw it up. I sincerely hope it ends up being the former of the two.

What does not change in this situation are my beliefs and values. My beliefs and values have developed into some very strong, deep and meaningful things to me. The beauty of the American Constitution is that I have the freedom to disagree with Obama over the next 4 years if he governs in a way that is in opposition to my beliefs and values, but nonetheless, he will still be our President for the next 4 years. It is our duty as Americans to treat him as such.

Check out this blog post to get more of an idea for what I am talking about.

P.S. Congrats to whol ever ends up being the 1000th viewer of my blog! :-p