An Obama Survival Kit

We're down to nineteen days and counting. Let me repeat something I've said before. Let us all pray for America, for ourselves, and for our President-to-be. It is desired, and it is hoped, that the changes promised to us during the recent campaign, will not come to any fruition. Now, it is up to each of us, individually, to make our mark; to take a principled stand.

The arrogance of youth may be one of the most critical things to deal with this coming year. However, the presidency, and especially it's long history, can also be one of our greatest allies in the looming struggle. Many are the men who vainly attempted to do things not consistent with their current reality, and many are the men who perished on the rocky coasts of their dreams. Not even Mister Obama may be that blissfully unaware of past presidential history. The stakes are simply too great to allow glaring mistakes to be made. Eventually, the sheer magnitude of what exactly awaits him, will be perhaps our best, last hope for salvation.

\In attempting to make friends of your enemies, you lose your friends. In attempting to do more than the country will allow,you risk losing your constituency as well. It has been correctly said that the presidency is a very lonely, and unforgiving place. It has always been thus, and today is certainly no exception to that cold, hard fact. If anything recent presidential history suggests that the men who occupied the Oval Office were more than not interested, keenly so, in their public approval numbers. Only a true leader, a person of infinite wisdom, and guidance from somewhere other than the assembled masses, leads in a manner sure to bring a future acclaim, albeit not a current one. To such leaders are left not their intuitions, nor their inclinations, simply an informed knowledge of what it is that must be done now, this day.

Ronald Reagan exemplified that better than anyone in the last hundred years. He led America, we may not have understood where it was he was leading us, but we followed nonetheless, convinced we were by his ebullience, and his superior grasp of the problems confronting America. We trusted him, and we trusted his judgment. Our trust was never misplaced, was it?

Today, even President Bush, God bless him, a man of incontrovertible faith in the American spirit, seems to be on a mission of belated attending to his presumed legacy. It was much more than sufficient, that he led us through perilous waters, infested with the sharks of his personal destruction. For having done that alone, he should be assured of his place in our country's history, and not worrying about what went wrong with his "compassionate Conservatism"

.To survive the perils of an Obama administration, the man must be confronted with constant calls for doing only the things a president must do to protect our country, and it's institutions from harm done by enemies both within, and without our territorial borders. Any attempts to wreak havoc with the status quo, must be resisted forcefully, and with immediacy. By this, I mean attempting to socially re-engineer our society, and to supplant that which has made America great, with governmental changes left behind in Britain long ago. When America took it's place on the world stage, it did so not with blind confidence, but with the knowledge that we belonged there, side by side with all other worldly powers. This was in America's best interests, and praise the leaders with the foresight to see through the fog of countervailing opinion.

Ultimately, the question is: Will Mister Obama stride onto the stage with confidence, or will he too, be humbled by the complexities, and the history of the presidency? If the latter, then there is hope indeed. The former, will be determined by the amount of power and influence his base of support has upon his decision making.

Either way, we must be on guard, and cautiously optimistic that in the end, history will extract a correct behavior from him. Perhaps he has raised the bar to higher levels than he may actually achieve. What then?The dirty secret is that his surrogates, and the obliging MSM have already begun his re-election campaign for 2012, calmly asserting that we shouldn't expect much to change in the first four years of his administration. This acknowledgement of difficulty recognized is a slight indication that history has already begun to take it's toll on his plans, his goals, and his sun rise awareness beginning to creep in.

Let's not forget that 2012 is an important year for us. Hey, that's our year, the year of Sarah. Gentlemen, start your engines!.