Unfortunately for all of us, this distorted worldview taught to a relatively small group of college students is now shared by the leader of the free world, and he’s not the least bit ashamed to shout it from the mountaintops. Don’t believe me? In his first 100 days in office, President Obama has paraded around the world apologizing for the history of American foreign policy (sorry about that WWII deal, western Europe), promoting economic policies that include spending the wealth of Americans who are yet to be born, and promoting environmental policies and healthcare policies that favor an unprecedented level of federal government control of our daily lives (it’s worked for Obama’s buddies in Cuba and Venezuela, right?). Did I mention he nominated 5 tax cheats to positions in his administration (or is it 6, I can’t keep up)? 

In the aftermath of yesterday’s Obamamania, I would like to make one thing very clear. I hope Obama fails as President. There – I said it. Much to the mainstream media’s and even many so-called conservatives’ dismay, not everyone is falling in line to touch the hem of Obama’s garment. I may be a lone voice in the wilderness on this one, but my sincere hope is that Obama is a failure. Not in the classic sense of personal failure for himself or for his beautiful family, but in the sense that I hope he fails in his advancement of the agenda of the left, an agenda with which his platform is in lock step. With all of the calls yesterday by the talking heads for all Americans to set party differences aside and serve as Team Obama cheerleaders, I am here to say that it’s nothing personal, but that I have chosen my team. My team is Team America. I owe no allegiance to one man, and certainly not to one who opposes the very things I have learned to be fundamental to the advancement of liberty in our country and in our world.

Yesterday morning, I stood in awe, as I’m sure many of you did, as I watched the inauguration of President Obama. While many were wowed by the magnitude of the swearing in of the first black president (certainly no small feat), I was more astonished by what has to be considered one of the finest accomplishments of our founders’ vision for government – the peaceful, uninterrupted, unmolested transfer of power. It is on days like Tuesday that we witnessed government, for all its faults, seeming (if only for one day) to operate in perfect harmony with its constituents as we said our goodbyes to one president and, in his place, ushered in a man who was fairly elected by the extraordinary democratic process so meticulously developed by our founding fathers.

But that was yesterday. This is today – a day in which we must deal with the reality of the dangers that government can pose when granted the magical powers bestowed upon it by the Obama platform. The problem with these magical government powers is just that – they appear on the surface to be “magical,” particularly when delivered so eloquently in speeches littered with flowery language and focus-group tested catch-phrases appealing to the disenfranchised masses.

So while many one-time Obama opponents follow the media’s commands to line up like sheep to uniformly support him while simultaneously waving the white flag of conservative surrender, I am here to repeat – I hope Obama fails in his advancement of socialized medicine. I hope Obama fails in his advancement of tax increases. I hope he fails in his advancement of nationalized healthcare, and minimum wage increases, and greater government oversight in the free markets, and expanding the role of government in our schools, in our social programs, in our businesses, and in our everyday lives. My greatest concern is that, if he does succeed in any of the aforementioned areas, we may lose our last best chance to oppose this unbridled liberalism. For once we allow the left to create the culture of government-dependency that Obama’s platform has already begun to create, good luck to the man who comes in attempting to take away all of those free lunches.

And finally, in response to the credit given to America’s youth in its role in electing Obama, and to the MTV culture of “Vote or Die”, “Rock the Vote” and all the other dumb things that popular culture does to get uninformed people, young and old, to the ballots to make uninformed decisions about the leaders of the free world, I would like to offer you my hope for my generation’s role in the political process over the next four years…Let it not be said of my generation that we stood idly by and allowed one man to go unchallenged as he oversaw a period of American history in which liberty lost its luster to the allure of government-expansionary policies aimed at forever ensuring the dependency of future generations. Let us not hesitate to praise Obama when he deserves our praise, but for the love of liberty, let us also not cower under the oppression of political correctness when he attempts to sell us on the necessity of sacrificing our freedoms on behalf of aiding Washington bureaucracies. For once we have set our course on the latter, the days of utilizing the First Amendment as a tool for healthy political dissent will most certainly be numbered.