I'm trying my best not to be cynical in my estimation of the coronation..I mean, the inauguration that took place yesterday. Afterall, it is historically significant that the son of an African immigrant was sworn in as 44th President of the United States. (although not the 44th man to be sworn in as Obama stated in his speech). However, I chose to listen to the ceremony uniterrupted on the radio because I could not stomach the ridiculous girlish fawning of the media over this man whose sole accomplishment thus far is that he managed to beat out a dozen other contenders for the prize.

Obama has never written any significant piece of legislation, executed any business or office, or even held a job outside of a Uniiversity or government setting. And yet we're being sold the mantra by the "unbiased" media that he's a great man. Really? What's he done? Men aren't made great, they become great.

I hope with all my heart that Obama will live up to the profile of Lincoln that he has audaciously set before himself.. But please Mr. President, let the people and historians decide if you deserve that comparison. Nothing is so un-inspiring as a leader who bestows upon himself greatness...it's very Napoleonic, and we know how things worked out for him.

I actually heard a commentator suggest that Obama was "beautifully dressed". Well, I would hope so, considering he's being sworn in as the leader of the free world. But may I ask in deference to Sarah Palin, who bought his clothes, how much did they cost and will he be returning them?

I have nothing personal against the President. In fact I pray that he will lead this country with the utmost integrity, honesty and uprightness. I expect him to make a few stumbles along the way as he takes on the burden of these trying times and I promise to not act out in the mean-spirited fashion that we saw from the left for the past 8 years toward a man who without waiver kept us safe from those who want to destroy us. (Thankyou Mr. Bush).

However, based on what I know about Mr. Obama from his 2 year campaign, I am fairly certain that there is very little about his ideas and intentions that I will agree with. I will never support government take-over of our free market enterprises, afterall even our founding fathers acknowledged that it's our free market system that sets us apart from the rest of the democratic world. If Obama really wants to emulate Lincoln then he should embrace his free market principles. A few months after his inauguration, Lincoln described his understanding of the founding fathers’ approach to government in his July 4, 1861 message to congress: “the leading object of government is … to lift artificial weights from all shoulders; to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all; to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life. Yielding to partial and temporary departures, from necessity, this is the leading object of the government for whose existence we contend.”

I will not support an $800 billion dollar stimulus program and the further incurrence of debt to the tune of $17,000 per household. My children are already on the path to inheriting an unstable and dangerous world, they don't need the further burden of a collapsed economic market because their parents could not stop the gratuitous printing and spending of money.

Furthmore, I will fervently fight against his efforts to make the killing of innocent life more accessible as Obama attempts to pass the Freedom of Choice Act, about which he stated in 2007, "Well, the first thing I'd do as president is, is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. That's the first thing that I'd do."

But with my torches lit and pitchforks ready, I will watch closely, very closely as I peer through the misty, bated breath of the fawning mainstream media, as President Obama steps into the Oval office as leader of the free world. This is no time for on-the-job training and the American peoples' patience is short. We expect results, no excuses, and no learning curve. And even though I hear the drumbeat of the mainstream media admonishing me to "get on board with the program", I will stand side by side with the 47% of those of us who did not vote for Mr. Obama, and without abandoning my conservative principles and my faith in the founding documents of our land, I will be quick to praise the President when I can, but I will oppose him when I must.