Today in our classes, well, first and second hour, we got to see our 44th president, Barack Obama be inaugurated.
History was made.
I kind of feel like those people who say they were there when Kennedy was shot? (My Grandma was giving birth, which totally doesn't sound as cool as 10th grade Newspaper class, but whatever
:-p)
So, living in AZ, with a major Republican dad and LDS friends, I am definitely the ugly duckling of politics. (hence the name my seminary class gave me: Obamanation.) That's what I love most about politics. On one end you can find me who believes passionately that gays should have the right to marry, but then my friend Marcy, who strongly believes that gays should not go near an alter. We have gotten into ALOT of debates. But being that most of my family and friends are republican I have to know a lot more about the issue, I had to be open to both sides and understood why Marcy feels the way that she does. I love the freedom to choose what you believe, and no one can take that away, they can send you as many articles as your email can handle, but only you decide whether you are Democrat, Republican or an Independent.
Yes, having a black president will be a change, but being so close-minded to the point that you refuse to even watch one of the most powerful men in the world speak, or call a homosexual a fag is just being ignorant and onery. Maybe in four years I will be saying that I was wrong and that he made a worse president than George Bush.
But maybe, just maybe I'll be proud to have stuck to my beliefs and supported one of the greatest men in history.
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