Wednesday, November 05, 2008
A Peaceful Transfer of Power
We are not democrats. We will not whine, cry, or moan about our losses. We will respect the outcome of a lawful election and the margin of victory was so vast that we cannot, for a moment, blame foul play.
We respect the Office of the President of the United States, regardless of our respect (or lack thereof) of the man who holds that office. This is the person who was chosen by The People, and I will respect the outcome of their decision.
The above is what I said to my disappointed children as they were shocked to find that their participation in their first election did not go the way they’d hoped.
I say the same to any person who thinks it is time to disparage the Office of President or The People’s choice.
I know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.
--Thomas Jefferson, 1820The first principle of republicanism is that the lex majoris partis is the fundamental law of every society of individuals of equal rights; to consider the will of the society enounced by the majority of a single vote as sacred as if unanimous is the first of all lessons in importance, yet the last which is thoroughly learnt. This law once disregarded, no other remains but that of force, which ends necessarily in military despotism.
--Thomas Jefferson, 1817
The People have spoken and made their choice and I will respect the outcome of this election as sacred, as if unanimous.
I can think it not the wisest or best decision… but speaking out against what this President may do, or what his party may do, will be saved for another day.
As we have done since our formation, we will witness the miraculous, peaceful transfer of power.
- Camelot (11/05/2008)
- Election Prediction (11/04/2008)
- The Whole Truth (11/04/2008)
- Election Day - Molly Brown Style (11/04/2008)
- The Manchurian Candidate (10/31/2008)
Posted 11/05/2008 12:39 AM CDT • Print Vers.
Comments
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Steven Den Beste agrees with you and his post makes a lot of sense, and the update at the end made me laugh out loud.
rlhunter | 11/5/2008 08:53 AM CDT -
Of course there was foul play! It’s only that it was committed gradually over the last fifty or sixty years, by teachers who trained us, and our kids, to believe the lies liberals tell.
Mark Hagerman | 11/5/2008 09:08 AM CDT -
Excellent point, we forget just how unusual it is, worldwide, to have a peaceful transfer of power. No civil war, no unrest, no mass unmarked graves.
We’ve surived crooks, fools and worse in the White House, we’ll survive this too.
Mark D | 11/5/2008 09:24 AM CDT
