Defeat

The people have spoken. According to the process lined out in the US Constitution, we have selected our next leader. Well, the electoral college will formally do that soon (please God make them pick McCain!!!!) and power will peacefully transfer from one leader to another. There are nations on this Earth where that transition of power is far less peaceful - we are blessed to live in the country we do.

McCain is giving his concession speech as I write this. He's trying to be civil, but the crowd is disappointed and maybe a tad bit angry. And I can't really blame them.

But Barack Obama is the President-elect. And that's the way it is.

Remember, it took a Jimmy Carter to get a Ronald Reagan. Maybe someone will step up in four years (ahem, Sarah, are you listening?) and take the helm. Who knows?

It was nice living in an America that still bore some resemblance to the idea the Founders had when they created this nation. We are headed away from that idea. I don't pretend to know where we're going. But something tells me that we are pretty much witnessing the beginning of the end of our nation. It will take years - one man can't destroy America in four or eight years - but he can start us down a dark path that will take much effort to recover from. Once you alter what it fundamentally means to be American, what else do we have? President-elect Obama is more than just the most liberal man ever elected to our highest office. He is the first true leftist. His economic beliefs are almost diametrically opposed to what America has stood for.

If we as a nation choose not to return to our roots, to what made us a great power in this world, to what made us a shining beacon of freedom to the rest of the nations (even though we have some horrible marks that stain our national soul) - if we choose to turn away from that, then maybe we deserve to lose our place in this world among the other nations. Maybe our time is over.



Who will take our place?