“America is a place where all things are possible”

by Francisco Gonzalez ~ November 5, 2008

“If there is anyone out there who still doubts
that America is a place where all things are possible,
who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time,
who still questions the power of our democracy,
tonight is your answer.”

- Barack Obama, November 5, 2008.

Just minutes after midnight on November 5, 2008, President-elect Barack Obama cited the nation’s founders in realizing that anything is possible in America. In a nation where blacks were first slaves, the American people elected the first black President. It is truly a historic night for the greatest and freest nation in the history of the world.

While my co-authors and I have campaigned through our book about the risk our nation would take in electing Barack Obama, there cannot be a single American that can disagree with President-elect Obama’s statement, that in America “all things are possible.”

While we still believe the policies advocated by Barack Obama are very far to the left; that his policy positions are outside of mainstream America; that Obama has shown a disrespect for human life at its most fragile periods, from birth to childhood development; that he has at times shown a disdain for ordinary Americans living in small towns, who respect the right to bear arms and to practice the truths of their religious faith; we still believe, as Barack Obama does, in the promise of America.

I will pray and hope that my co-authors and I were wrong about Barack Obama, because on January 20 he will be our next President - and as Americans, we must put our faith and hope that he will be a great leader that will lead our nation to better days. I hope that he will truly be the post-partisan President that America needs in this challenging time, and I will place hope in his call that we can all “resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.”

Tonight is a night to celebrate the eternal promise of America and to realize that each of us, as individuals in this great nation, can achieve whatever we dream possible. Barack Obama proved that with his well run campaign to seek the highest office in the land. As advocates of liberty, we will continue to hold him accountable to the limited government principles placed in the U.S. Constitution by the very founders that Obama cited on this historic night.