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I can't really tell what it is that I'm watching with this Inaugural.

I should be seeing people, American people, who are genuine in their expression of joy that the smooth and Democratic transition of power has occurred and the Republic remains intact. We have, democratically, decided to move on to bigger and hopefully better things. I want to be fair and optimistic, but I don't believe that is what I am seeing here. What I'm seeing here is something else, something that has my worried. I see this Inaugural as the very living evidence, the very essence of the "something good" that lives deep in the America soul that I have always believed in, but I just cant shake this feeling that a good many others out there who are looking at this Inaugural as the end of the America they have always hated and the beginning of "something else".

What worries me is that the "something else" is decidedly undemocratic. What I am worried about is the worship of men over the respect for the Constitution.

There seems to be a lot of talk about the "greatness of the man" and not about the nature of the office that he now holds.

Men( and any woman will tell you this ) are just men. Some are good, some are bad, but they all have their flaws. Let us not forget that he is a man, and only a man and that any man who holds the office will someday leave it. Let us pray he does not begin to actually believe the good things that people say about him. Let us hope that he also does not believe the bad things that people will say. Let us deeply wish that he doesn't care one way or the other, because in the end he was elected to lead, not to be loved and adored or dare I say - worshiped.

The new President is a man,just a man, and there is a real majesty to that fact. The majesty is that a man of no real consequence can be the President if the people so decree. Come what may, we will decide in four years whether to renew his contract to serve us and in eight years he will voluntarily leave the office to his predecessor. This is what the Constitution holds. That is the core of the Oath taken for the office. That is the essential majesty of the office; that so much power,once achieved is to be given up in an orderly fashion. For like the life of a man, it is designed to be temporary, lest it be mistaken by others for a mask of holiness. Being President doesn't make you a better man than the rest of us, it simply reveals to everyone what you already were back when you were just a man. Some men find this humbling, others shrink from the image it brings, others accept the burden and do the best they can, comforted in the fact that it is only temporary and relief will surely come to them in the end.

Let us all be wary of the day when any man is elevated above the office, not for how the process of deification can elevate the man into being something he is not, but how it lowers the rest of us into being something less than men.

Posted @ January 19, 2009 04:02 PM | Current Affairs

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