Personally Speaking.

G'day Everyone.

As I'm watching the history unfold on CNN and CNN.com, a lot of things are happening out there. It's going to be an interesting day as it happens. The end of the Bush era and the beginning of Obama era.

But some how, Obama did it the right way, civil rights by the vote. The American vote that got fed up with Bush and the Republican party. Not mass rallies, not marches, not speaking like a "I have a dream" stuff. But Obama is a person. who's gotten the biggest job in the nation's history, has a job of providing civil rights for everyone in a legal way that he can do. It won't be easy for him. The nation's High Court will make it tough.

Just as a teacher back in High School told me this: "If Martin Luther King wanted civil rights for his "people", he should have used the courts and sued for it.". Much more of an effort to do than holding marches and demanding stuff to be given to them by force.

I read a lot about Martin Luther King when I was young. There's a lot of things I will disagree about MLK. Especially of WHY the past congress of long ago made his life (MLK's) into a Federal Holiday.
Some of the gay community are using MLK as a way to pave for civil rights for themselves. I wouldn't do it that way. But if some mis-understand my position, like those that do on facebook, then I apologize to them. Especially to an old friend, who I just found him to be gay and loyal to MLK very much. I feel bad that he did not give friendship a chance to reconnect and get to know each other again. But we fought about MLK and ended before we ever re-learned that we were classmates back in High School. So to my once and former friend, if you are reading this, God bless in whatever you do. Prolly won't come to the 35th High School reunion later.

Today, our nation will be taken in a new direction. A new idea. A new resurgence. A new rebuilding of our economic times. Civil rights are going to play a role in this nation. Maybe in this time, Proposition 8 that was passed some time ago out west, could eventually get over turned. Will many of the states grant same sex marriage in Obama's time? I don't know.
It was kind of interesting. Bush, who made it an election promise to insure that marriage between a man and woman become Federal Law, never took to put his anti-gay marriage status into a constitutional amendment in the last 4 years. Thankfully, Bush was too focused on the war on Terror. As Bush leaves into history, so will all the things he's done.

Obama is no MLK. I hope we all realize that. His first 100 days starting at the moment he is sworn in will be watched very much closely. It will set the tone of his time just as it did for Bush 8 years ago.

President Obama, good wishes. Ex-president Bush, enjoy retirement if you will.

Semper FI.