Congratulations

go out to Our President- Elect, Barack Obama.

I did not want him in office. I still have reservations about him, especially his foreign policy.

However, he is now my president and I accept that. The first thing I did was pray for him. He is going to need all the help he can get. I think a good many of the country's problems will only be solved by the power of the Almighty. (Let us just hope that we have not elected the Anti-Christ.)

I watched the cameras pan to Jesse Jackson and I saw tears stream down his face. He lived to see a black man as president. Good for him. I do not like Jesse Jackson. I think he is a racist pig of a human being. But, I could see the joy on his tear-streaked face. It moved me.

I am hopeful after hearing Obama's speech. Well, I am at least less apprehensive or apathetic. I waffled between the two the last few weeks.

I liked Palin. I want to see her go into the Senate and get her 'experience' that others seem to think was so important. It mattered not for Obama (a first term Senator), but we have double standards in this country and since she is a woman, the experience will matter in her case. I want to see her come back in a few years and run. I think a Hillary/Palin contest would draw even larger, record crowds than the black man/ white man race did. Just my opinion.

My husband thinks Hillary is gone for good. I think not. That woman is too power hungry. I think she will return.

At any rate, I am glad it is over.

Mr. Obama,
You have a huge responsibility to the people of this country to be honest, hard-working, and ethical. Do not let us down.
You also have the added responsibility of going down in history as the first black president. It can go ill or well. Make sure that in the history books they say of you, "He was one of the greatest men to serve in the White House".

Welcome, Mr. Obama, President-Elect.