Time, really, to get past this
Nov 6th, 2008 | By ttally | Category: cultureI still have a difficult time typing ‘President-elect Obama’ and come January 20th when he simply will be known as the president, it will be equally hard for me and other conservatives to mention the word president and not think of George W. Bush. Alas, time moves forward and for our movement, Tuesday wasn’t a good day. However, I’ve concluded today, after listening to both Rush Limbaugh and to Sean Hannity that the time has come for us all to get over this.
Listening to Hannity, in particular, I found myself yelling at the radio, when the host - who I normally agree with - continued bashing Obama for being Obama and telling those callers that supported the 44th president to remember that 57 million people voted against their guy. Who cares, I say, for it really doesn’t matter. No matter how often Hannity and others like to mention that this election was close, it really wasn’t, and that doesn’t matter anyway. In 2000, Bush officially won by 537 votes and surely at the time, Hannity was telling his listeners that it were the Dems that needed to move on. So today, it’s our turn, to move on. In addition, both hosts called into question calls for ‘unity’ when discussing Obama’s selection of Ramn Emanuel as his chief of staff, his first appointment as the president-elect. I would expect - and we always see - presidents select as their chief of staffs those most loyal to them and their causes. Yes, Emanuel is a hyper-Dem that dislikes the GOP, but isn’t that the point?
On another note, is the issue of whether or not Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman (I) will or will not lose his chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Again, the likes of Hannity contend that Harry Reid’s likely decision to strip the McCain supporter of his chairmanship is called ‘partisan’ and wrong, which perhaps they are if you are a Republican. However, Lieberman caucuses with the Dems and by supporting the other party’s candidate for president, would one expect anything different from the majority leader, especially one that might have as many as fifty-eight Senators in his caucus, with at least one or two that might be more deserving of representing the majority in that chairmanship.
The point is simple, I and 57 million others didn’t vote for the next occupant of the White House. It is true that most of Barack Obama’s decisions as president will not be ones that someone from our side would have made. But the guy won the office nonetheless.
Get over it.
