Exactly two years ago, there were quite a few conservative bloggers that wrote on their blogs that they were willing to support the Obama presidency by stating "Obama is my president" in one variation or another.  These were all as a result of the many, many leftist bloggers and non-bloggers for that matter, who never accepted George Bush as their president. Conservative bloggers didn't want to look as stupid and childish as Leftard bloggers looked when they made such a ridiculous and petty claim that Bush wasn't their President.

Despite the very egotistical foundation of stating that one or another person voted into the office of President of the United  States is or isn't "your President", there was a basis for making such a statement.  If you wanted to seperate your actions from those whiny, child-like actions of the Leftards ("Waahhh, why can't Gore be president, he's so much more intelligent than Bush" or "Waaahhh, why can't Kerry be president, he actually served in Viet Nam and Bush didn't") then you stated publicly that Obama was your president. Of course one to one million conservative bloggers stating that Obama was their president mattered not one iota, in much the same way that several million whiny Leftards didn't matter one iota as to the presidency of Bush. 

But where it did matter, was in the election.  All eight years of whining and temper-tantrums gave the media an opening into discrediting the Bush years.  You can still today hear Obama the President claim that the Bush years were a financial disaster for most Americans.  This is undeniably, and proveably, false.  All those years of whining also gave cover for the now false claim that the federal debt incurred by Obama is simply a continuation of the Bush debt from the wars and from giving tax breaks to the rich, instead of the truth that Obama's debt is not a continuation, but a hockey-stick like charting of the federal debt into record-breaking territory.  And all those years of whining about Bush and Cheney shredding the Constitution has given the media and the President cover for what is clearly the politicization of the DoJ and the clamp-down on First Amendment and Fourth Amendment rights that is occuring today at the behest of Democratic Congressmen and at TSA inspection sites around the country.  Eight years of falsly claiming that Bush was a dolt, a charlatan, an ursuper, a whatever that days complaint was, enabled the Democratic Party to put forth a Leftist, America-hating Senator with zero accomplishments outside of academia to victory.  That is where all the Bush bashing "He's not my president" lead us.  And it's been a disaster for both our country, and the world. 

So for all the conservative bloggers who took the high road proclaiming Obama to be their President, through thick and thin.  He's our president whether you supported him or not.  But there is a price to pay for giving support, and a price to pay for witholding support.  And it's not simply in which party gets to play President for the next few years.  It's whether America continues into the future as the world's most free nation, as a shining example of what humankind can achieve when allowed to be free, as the defender of freedom everywhere on this planet.  Or whether we change course after 200 years and become just another nation that lurches Left, then Right, then Center, then back again, like most of Europe, with nothing more to contribute to their citizens or the world than a fascinating history and a bleak future. 

I for one, will not be like a stupid Lefty and proclaim that Obama is not my president.  He is, and I have no control over that whatsoever.  But I will also refrain from publicly proclaiming that he is my President because with such a proclamation, I add my miniscule level of support to his effort to change the America that I have succeeded in, and that I hope my children succeed in as well.  And I have added my miniscule level of support to the media that I no longer believe is there to bring truth to power, but is simply an arm of the Leftist Democratic Party.  

Obama is President, true, but he's not any President I hoped for.