PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA

Having the first black President is a good thing. However, I wish it were a different person.

Black folks can now honestly say to their little ones that anything is possible for them to attain in America. We've had 2 black Supreme Court Justices (although leftist blacks - I guess that's kind of an oxymoron - don't think much of Justice Clarence Thomas, but they loved Justice Thurgood Marshall).

President Bush chose Condoleezza Rice to be the first female African-American secretary of State, the Cabinet's senior position, and Colin Powell as the nation's first black Secretary of State.

Lieut. Gen. Colin Powell was also President Reagan's national security adviser.

Numerous blacks have been elected to the House and a much smaller number have been in the Senate. Governors, Mayors, and all other positions in City, County, State, and Federal Government have been filled by blacks.

So, now they can say they've held every position possible in US government.

For that, I'm grateful.

Forty-some years ago, we were hosing down blacks with fire hoses for being "uppity." In my lifetime, blacks have been relegated to the back of the bus, their own drinking fountains, restrooms, and dining facilities. Brown vs. Board of Education was only 50 some years ago.

All Americans, not just blacks, need to be very proud and excited that we've reached this point in race relations in the US.

So, President-elect Obama has the right to pick his Cabinet, get into office, enjoy the honeymoon, and then we'll see how he wants to govern.

If he governs from a centrist position, I'll get along with him, just fine.

If he governs from his natural position of the extreme left, I hope to challenge him at every LEFT turn.

Amazingly, 62+million people, liberals, independents, conservatives, etc., voted to push the Democrat party way to the left.

The 55+million folks who either voted against Mr. Obama or in some cases (a few), for Mr. McCain, said they didn't want the country to go any farther to the left.

My greatest hope and prayer (politically), is that we won't run any more non-conservatives for the Republican nomination for President. After Gg Bush, GHW Bush, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, and Dwight Eisenhower (with Ronald Reagan being the only exception in the last 50 years), we've had nothing but moderate Republicans. We need to run a Bobby Jindal, Sarah Palin, Jeff Sessions, or Tim Pawlenty (and I'm sure there are others I'm leaving out).

Anyway, if President Obama pushes Socialism/Marxism on us, we need to fight like crazy. America's young men and women think Socialism is cool. They don't understand the dangers it presents. Some of us older Americans need to keep reminding them that it's a bad thing.