Instead of bemoaning the fact that Obama must be president over all citizens of our nation, we should be celebrating the fact that Obama is the president over the entire United States.
Instead of tearing each other apart, attacking each other because some of us are people of faith and others see religion as evil, we should be celebrating the fact that people of faith and those who do not follow a faith have stood together to achieve a Democratic victory.
Instead of ripping each other to shreds over who Obama chooses to help him govern, we should be celebrating the formation of a Democratic government, and giving the man who we worked so hard to get elected a chance to actually do something before we shred the base that got him into office.
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Instead of the bloodthirsty attacks against each other over whether or not Rick Warren should be saying a prayer at the inauguration, we should be celebrating the fact that Joseph Lowery, a pro-gay, black pastor will be speaking at the inauguration.
Instead of channeling so much energy into criticizing what we think Obama might do, we should be looking at those who would block the things that we got him elected to do. We should be watchful, but to attack the man for things that we fear he might do after he assumes office is self destructive.
Instead of suddenly deciding that our allies in the election are suddenly our enemies because of one or two issues out of all the issues out there, we should be looking at the commonality that brought us together, and building on that so that in the long run we can see true progressive change.
Instead of taking out our frustrations that not everything we wanted from the election cycle materialized, we should be looking forward to see what we can do to accomplish those things the next time around. It is less than two years until the midterm elections.
I fear that in our overall victory, we are in danger of self destruction because of those battles that were lost, over disagreements that are minor when compared to the number of things that brought us as liberals, Democrats and progressives together.
I for one want to be able to continue to work for positive change. I guess I still have the audacity of hope.