What does the future hold? Senator Obama had a solid lead at this point, with just over 22 days to go. We are facing a crossroads in our history: will we take a left turn, or will we go to the center with McCain? Will we allow liberal Supreme Court Justices to be appointed and keep Roe vs. Wade for the next twenty years? Will we instead elect McCain and possibly overturn Roe within the next four years?
John McCain has a lot of faults. Campaigns tend to cheapen and lessen the honor and courage and dignity of men, and this one has been no different. But underneath all the invective and dishonesty and fudging of the truth is a man whose character was formed long ago. His life has always been devoted to his country, and he has tried, often at great cost, to do what is honorable and right. He has fallen short many times, but where he fell many others had never even reached for. He is old now, but I'm hoping that America will give him one more chance to serve, one more mission to complete, one more order to follow.
Barack Obama is one of the most profoundly interesting politicians of our lifetime. As a conservative, I disagree with him on several very important issues. But he has a wisdom far beyond his years, and a tempered view of what is possible in life that is rare among liberals. I believe this is because of the life he has lived. We conservatives like to say that he is arrogant, pollyannish, and pie-in-the-sky, a man who never struggled to get where he is.
I believe only the first to even remotely resemble the truth, and perhaps one day he will get his chance to lead this great country. Perhaps when that day comes, he will have realized the poverty of his pro-abortion position. One can only hope. I sincerely do.
Either way, America will live on. It is up to us to preserve her greatness and ideals, and as others have said, keep that beacon shining brightly. Whoever America chooses as her president, I wish ourselves luck in one of the most challenging times we have ever faced. May God Bless America.
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Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearth-stone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
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