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Inauguration Diary: Reports From Washington
January 20, 2009
NorthEscambia.com will have updates on this Inauguration Day from Washington, with behind the scenes look at the sights and sounds from Washington.
In cooperation with the Pensacola Independent News, we will have reports during the day from IN staff members Sean Boone and Joani Delzen from the streets of the capital.
In their first report back from Washington last night, Boone reported it took three hours in the cold to pickup the tickets to the inaugural ceremonies from Representative Jeff Miller’s office. The two had a relative easy and calm trip to Washington, but they are expecting that to change as the day goes on.
Join us for more updates during the day here on NorthEscambia.com.
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6 Responses to “Inauguration Diary: Reports From Washington”
I’m not sure exactly why America is celebrating the 1st Black President becoming elected because Obama isn’t black…he’s Muslim! America elected a Muslim president. Nevertheless, I was told by my child today that they made the students watch the Inauguration during school hours. Yes, I agree that electing a new president into office is educational, etc but I have an issue with teachers feeding students with political opinions rather than facts.
I have heard a lot of “you must stand behind this President” and “you must support this President”, espoused by my Democratic counterparts.
However, this is still (at least for the immediate future) a free-thinking society, and as such, gives me the right to promote and support any policies, agendas, and ideologies as I see proper, moral, Constitutional, and fit, and to fight tooth-and-nail against those I see as dangerous and wrong-headed.
If and when the President’s policies are in concert with my own thinking, then I will have no problem supporting him. But when his policies are in direct opposition to my values, why exactly would I be required to support him/them?
It’s our ability to disagree with the President, the Congress, our local leaders, the media, our neighbors, and anyone else, without fear of recrimination or retribution, that makes this country great. The Freedom of Speech, enumerated in the 1st Amendment, is one of the closest held, sacrosanct articles of our Constitutional government system.
Just because the Democratic Party won the Presidential election, and a majority in both congressional bodies, doesn’t mean I owe him, or them, anything more than the opportunity to voice their ideas. They have no claim on my allegiance to their plans and agendas. My allegiance IS to the Country, NOT to any of its specific leaders.
Leaders come and go, some are “good ” and some are “bad”. They “deserve” only the “right” to make their policies known, and to work toward implementing them. If they don’t make a convincing argument, or can’t come up with good ideas, it is our patriotic duty to oppose them and work for policies that we believe are better for this country.
I believe that’s what my liberal friends would argue that they have done for the last eight years, expressing thier disagreement and displeasure.
Now the “worm has turned”, so why shouldn’t Conservatives be afforded the same consideration?
Curious, I listened to his speach and nothing about making a socialist government, but the question is, do we continue to believe that any action to help people, especially in these times, is fundamentally wrong. Shouldn’t government provide the protections and regulation to make our society maintain its ideals. We are not a pure free market capitalist country, but a Republic that had, from the beginning protections for the market place. We’re suppose to prevent monopolies or large corporate businesses from crushing the small businesses, the enterprises that employee more people, give back to their communities more than any national/international corporations, and in a lot of cases give us the new technologies, the new inventions that power our economy. The few years have seen us repeat the same sins of our past when we let Standard Oil control our fuel supplies, and worse yet, put lead in fuel when there were alternates, but the Rockefeller family owned a lead mine, so we got leaded fuel.
Yes mistakes were made on both sides of the political aisle, but to focus only on one part and ignore the other will accomplish nothing.
well l voted for mcCain but we don’t get what we wont so i have to like it. everyone say that he is black but he is white to so i been told it don’t mader if he is greeen or red or blue it he will help make jobs to let people go to work then that what we need
Who Cares — At least northescambia tries to present both sides of the story. The numbers in the story you mention show that 1/4 of the people here did care enough to vote for Obama. At least unlike some media they are presenting both sides. That’s what fair media is about with both sides of the stories. I voted for McCain. He lost. Now it is my duty to support my president whether I like Obama or not.
A look at the numbers in your article “How North Escambia Voted” should tell you that the majority of your readership really could care less about the hoopla in Washington today. O’yea that’s right the minority is dictating to the majority in this country now what we have to read, watch or pray to. Whoops! I forgot, the ACLU said we can’t pray anymore in our schools. Welcome to the century of socialism, first step- Unified County Government.(All for One-right!)