I finally made it home again after fighting my way out of the Hell hole known as Miami. Damn I hate that place!

I watched the election results Tuesday night with a growing sense of dread. It was obvious and no surprise that Obama had the win. Why dread? I can't really put my finger on it except to say that at this point in history, with our economy on a serious downhill slide, I just don't feel that we need a far Left President.

I do have mixed feelings about the Obama win. On the one hand I feel a certain pride in the fact that our nation has grown and matured to the point that a black man can be elected President. On the other hand I can't help but feel that with a left leaning President and a left leaning majority in Congress we're in for some serious economic disaster and serious restrictions on personal liberties.

I truly hope I am wrong about the latter. I hope that Congress and Obama can't get together to make some intelligent decisions that will head off the world-wide recession that is not just looming on the horizon but is pounding down the gates.

Now before some Dem fan-boy pipes up about how this economic downslide happened with a Repubilcan in office, don't even go there. The issues that have lead up to this problem have been brewing and growing for several decades now and is a world-wide problem not just an American one, so keep your party bullshit to yourself. Personally I think both major parties are a pack of bastards.

I truly hope that Obama's Leftist ideals will be moderated to some extent by his advisors and handlers, and he is able to manage the nation in a sensible manner.

The way I see it one of three things will happen over the next four years.

1. Obama will stick to his far Left ideals and run the country into the ground, destroying business, creating wide-spread unemployment, and decimating our military forces.

2. Obama will quickly realize the realities of the world and make the hard choices needed to pull us through the coming economic crises and lead us into a new era of prosperity. In this case he will almost certainly see a seconf term and be considered among the great Presidents.

3. Obama will be overwhelmed by the office and become just another single term President that is remembered only for being the first black man to hold the office. That in itself is worthy of note of course, but hardly what we need right now.

Well ok, there is another possibility, and one I have actually heard spoken by the more extreme nutjobs I run across in my line of work.

4. Obama will join Lincoln and JFK as an assassinated President.  We can't totally dismiss this as possible as there are still a great many extremely racist and quite insane people in the world. The morning following the elections I heard some nutjob on the CB radio spouting a bunch of pro-KKK racist bullshit, including a call to kill Obama. I certainly hope the cops were listening and managed to track down that guy as he truly sounded like he belonged in a padded room.

Actually I heard a great deal of racist comments flying around on the CB Wednesday, from both blacks and whites, and frankly at that moment I was ashamed of being American. I have no issue with racist jokes about blacks, whites, or anyone else. I find them funny...usually. But the people I was hearing weren't joking, they were serious and filled with hatred. Truly sad.

Although I voted against him I wish President Obama nothing but the best and pray that he will have the wisdom and judgment needed to do his new job and lead our nation in the right direction. He won the election, will very soon be our new President, and deserves the chance to prove himself.

I only hope that We The People haven't made a serious mistake and driven a stake intoi the hearts of the economy and personal liberty.

Time will tell.