So far, the new president has not changed my life in any meaningful way. He still has some people really angry. I don't get it. I understand why President Obama's election and inauguration is meaningful to people of color in a truly historic way. I do not blame anyone for being excited and deeply moved by the events of the last few days. I'm proud of the country for electing Barack Obama.
But I didn't vote for him because I disagree with a lot of his major policy initiatives. [Which is different from his politics -- he is a master politician, and of a different mold than Bill Clinton, who destroyed and denigrated anyone who got in his way.] For starters, and considering today is the anniversary of the Supreme Court's really poor decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, I believe that abortion is wrong. The issue is not choice, it's life. From a constitutional standpoint, I basically think that the constitution is made up of words, not "emanations" and "penumbras." The Supreme Court should have left the decision to regulate abortion where it belongs, with the individual states, rather than finding new substantive rights where they never existed.
The point is, I will support President Obama when I think he is right, and I will disagree when I think he is wrong. Odds are, I'll think he is wrong more often than not on policy, but elections matter, and my side lost. That's democracy, and demonizing the other side is not very sporting. That's why most of the public is not engaged, and part of the reason Barack Obama is president today. I just hope that "hope and change" really mean something. Pardon me, though, if I am skeptical.
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