I have mixed feelings about Barack Obama’s inauguration.

I don’t like the “progressive” (the liberal’s new name for liberal) takeover of political power in the U.S. It bodes ill for the Constitutional rights I think are important, especially gun rights and the individual’s right to be free of Big Government intrusion into our personal lives.

But I like the polls that indicate that most African-Americans now feel that their struggle for their rights is finally over. I’ve always felt they had all the opportunities of other Americans, but I know many of them did not. If this convinces them that they do, then I think the inauguration is, indeed, a great day for America.

I just hope Obama’s message of change doesn’t mean the end of gun rights, the end of talk radio, and the beginning of a socialist state in America. His deification by the left wing media bothers me greatly. Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and Roosevelt were all deified by their nations’ media just before I came into this world, and a study of history tells me we don’t need another deity at the helm of the last superpower left on earth.

But I’ll give Obama a grace period. I hope he does not trample my rights. I hope he understands that America is the land of the free, not the land of Big Government determining which freedoms should be supported and which should be outlawed.

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