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Cautious Optimism

In this recent blog post I said that I felt like we have a chance to actually have a President that we can be proud of no matter who won, McCain or Obama. I still feel that way in principle, so now we'll see if I was right.

Despite the fact that I voted for McCain and I still think he was the better man, I join McCain in wishing President-elect Obama the very best. I pray especially that Obama and the country will be spared the kind of unprecedented trauma, through no fault of our own, that plagued President Bush from the outset.

Personally, I don't really care that much about Obama's race but I can understand the sense of pride that most African-Americans have in this accomplishment. It's worth a moment of celebration, but very soon Obama will need to move on and show that he deserved it, not just from a misguided sense of entitlement that likely got him elected in the first place, but because he can lead us in sensible directions that we'll actually be proud of.

If I could offer Obama one piece of advice, it would be to can his preachy rhetoric with all the liberal code words ["fairness" and "give back" and "inequality"] and just give it to us straight what he wants to do. Take a page out of Google's book and "don't be evil" give us transparency and truth. We didn't all go to Harvard, but we can all handle the simple truth.

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