It’s been a week, and I still have any number of left leaning associates looking for my opinion on President-Elect Obama. A lot of them happen to be associates who have a more irrational case of Bush Derangement Syndrome. You know, where you hate George Bush, Fox News, and Christianity to the point where it consumes your very existence?
Anyway, they ask me what I think and all seem to get a look of confusion and/or disappointment on their face when I give my boilerplate reply:
“He wasn’t my candidate but he’s still my President, and he has my respect accordingly.”
I honestly don’t know how else I’m supposed to answer this question. Yes, I was (and still am) a John McCain supporter, but this isn’t the Mets vs. the Yankees to me. The presidency is more important than me text messaging friends every time Brett Favre throws an interception. Barack Obama won. If you want to get up in my grill because my guy loss, have at it. But on January 20th Obama is still going to be MY president.
Will I agree with him on everything? Of course not. In fact, I’ll probably disagree with him more often than not and will express my opinion accordingly. But I’m also not going to sit here rooting for him to fail…especially before he’s even had the opportunity to do anything yet. He’ll still be my President, the same way George Bush is my president now, and as Bill Clinton, Bush 41, and Ronald Reagan were before that.
I still woke up last Wednesday morning proud to be an American, no more or less than I would have if John McCain had won. There’s no derangement syndrome here.
