Something that angers me that will only get worse..

For this election I did not choose Barack Obama. Everyone who knows me knows this to be true, and aside from my crazy notes on the Apocolypse, I had many other political reasons not to personally vote for him.

With that said, after Obama was announced as our next figure head, Andrew and I watched his acceptance speech and then got in the car to drive home. We were both ridiculously silent as we're both terribly competitive and even though this wasn't us trying-we still felt like we lost. I turned to him and said there's no use crying over spilt milk so we will not complain about a very fair win, and that we will just support our future president and not whine like our opposers have for the past eight years. Life is life and you deal with what you have.

So we/I...Andrew is still having a hard time letting this one go...lol...have not complained. I have surprisingly not made any jokes or written any satire. I have accepted what has happened, as that is my lot. But what really irks me is that many conservatives (very surprisingly) are doing the same thing this election. Accepting defeat and announcing that as this is what has happened they will support Obama as he is now everyone's president, not just those who voted for him. And do you want to know what the idiots at CNN did with that? They showed a clip of someone who fought tooth and nail for McCain-even though he sucked too-saying that she will now get in line to support Obama and that she recognizes the great victory achieved for all Americans through the historic election of a black man. Then they said that they were really surprised and that they're glad she finally sees the light and that she's not the majority in this country anymore and that she needs to get in line behind the man who will change the world.

It is one thing to lose with dignity and respect for your successful opponent and it is another thing entirely to "see the light." While the Republican party lost due to poor decisions made, which was a necessary step to reconstructing the party that has completely fallen, I will not say that I now believe that conservatives are the minority. I will say that neither option was truly conservative so Obama won purely because he is not a copy cat of Bush and can present himself well. If he had lost after spending 600 million dollars on his campaign I would have sought him out just to slap him. After countless tirades about improper spending and saving the world, then throwing 600 MILLION DOLLARS at a political campaign...he could have stopped at 300 MILLION and told his supporters to then donate to the causes they think he will somehow champion...do you know the "change" we could have seen occur???

So this irks me. Obama won, he is now my president elect, and I will support him and pray for him continually. But this in no way means that I have changed my mind and think I was wrong all along. This in no way means that in 8 years after the reign of The One Barack Obama we will not see (finally) a truly conservative candidate. It means that there was a race and he won fairly without a shadow of a doubt. Even if he had won by a lesser margin I wouldn't be out pounding the pavement...because a win is a win is a win and I would never want to look as petty and ridiculous as the democrats and liberals alike have for the past eight years.

This is more than I've said to even my own husband on this issue, and this is where it ends. Politics are no longer a topic of conversation for me, and will remain so for a while.

My mother in law and I have taken 20 steps backwards as far as relationship, and my sister in law is still evil. C'est la vie right?

But oh my is my husband amazing and worth every minute of it.