Why I am not angry about Obama winning....

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I wrote before about a man who assumed that I would cry if Obama won the election. Some here at MyLot wonder why many of us who spoke out passionately against Obama aren't spitting bullets now that he has won. As some of you read, my answer to the man was that I don't base my happiness on who is in the White House. But there is much more to it than that. I've been politically aware since the Carter adminstration. I've lived through all the combinations... republican president/republican congress, republican president/democrat congress, democrat president/democrat congress, democrat president/republican congress... What I've learned from it all... it doesn't make much difference. What I've also seen is the good and the ugly side of people. I've seen people who were normally good natured and friendly become hate-filled and angry. I've seen nornally honest people become blatant liars. All because of who was president. I first saw it among my more liberal friends when Reagan was elected. I never knew anyone could hate someone they didn't know so much. Because they resented the fact that Reagan won, they openly trashed the US. For the first time in my life, I heard Americans (other than scum like Hanoi Jane and her kind of filth) defending the USSR, Cuba and other totalitarian nations. People who I once knew as patriotic, freedom loving Americans had nothing good to say about the US and somehow decided that the people in communist nations and third world countries had it much better. This attitude was turned on its ear when the Berlin Wall came down. All of the sudden, the people who had spent the bulk of the Reagan adminstration defending the Soviet Union and Communism were celebrating their downfall. It was really quite entertaining... but also pathetic. Then Prs. Clinton was elected. Talk about the tables turning. While I didn't hear conservatives or republicans praising other countries, normally patriotic people started hoping and praying for failure in the US. All of the sudden words like "impeach" and even "assassination" didn't sound like national tragedies, but something good. Hate for the nation somehow became a family value. Then George Bush was elected, anger and hate became mainstream. Hatred for the US became so prevalent that foreign leaders who preached hatred of the US were envited to speak at US universities, but republican or conservative Senators, Housemembers or others were banned. Bad news became about the nation became music to some Americans ears. "Patriotism" turned from a positive emotion to a swear word, and then it was turned around. It became Unpatriotic to believe in the US anymore, and "patriotic" to trash her. Disagreement with the president became an excuse to hate the US completely. I refuse to bathe in the satanic mud of that kind of hate. I refuse to allow myself to sell out my country, my family, and my own integrity just to feast on that kind of bile. I was taught that you should never make decisions (especially major ones) when you are angry. Everyone needs to take that advice to heart. I am an American. I am also a Christian, a Mormon, a Wisconsin Army National Guard retired NCO. I am a father, a husband, a brother, a friend, an aquantance, a cyberbuddy and a stranger. I am a gun owner, I drive a Jeep, I teach guitar and run an online store. I have spent most my adult life helping others, but I have also been in the position where I was the helped. All of these things add up to who I am, none of them give me justification to hate my country simply because I am disapointed with the outcome of an election. Disagree, disrespect, oppose, and/or speak out against Prs. Obama all you want! It is just as patriotic to oppose the president as it is to support him. But if your patriotism or love of country has anything to do with whose butt fills the big chair in the Oval Office, I not only question your patriotism, I question your love for anything to do with this country at all. In fact, I question your integrity, your humanity, and your maturity. In fact, if you can't love your country simply because you don't like the president, I consider you a spoiled little brat who is only happy when you are getting your own way. So, all that being said, I am not angry about the outcome of the election. I will not oppose Prs. Obama simply for the sake of opposition. When he does things I agree with, I will support him. When he does things I disagree with, I will oppose him. I will give him credit where I feel credit is due, even if it means that I was wrong. Whatever Prs. Obama does, We are the United States of America. Whatever Congress does, We are the United States of America. It is our United States of American, not George Bush's, not Obama Barack's, nor any other individual's. The US Constitution says "We the People"... "we" isn't an "me, but not you" proposition.