Let me add that only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.
Benjamin Franklin
by MeKonnen H. Birru, PhD
Yesterday, over 90 million Americans voted and in Texas time exactly 11:12 PM, the former one term U.S senator from the state of Illinois won his second and last term of the U.S. presidency with 303 electoral votes. Florida’s result still not in but doesn’t matter anymore because the young African American incumbent won six of the seven battle ground states such as Iowa, Colorado, Nevada, and Ohio. “We will pray for him,” said Mr. Romney in his concession speech right before Obama’s hopeful speech. To the rest of us who had been anxiously waiting to see the election result, now the snow is melted, the spring is in, the sun is rising again. Now, we all clearly know who has the mandate to lead this great nation; yes, we have a new democratically elected president. Not just democrats or the 50% who voted for Obama but the entire nation accepts the re-elected Commander in Chief. Yes, the people gave him a mandate to wage war on their behalf, to negotiate on with other nations on their behalf, to tax on their behalf, and to call himself the leader of the free world on their behalf. God bless America. “I know that political campaigns can sometimes seem small, even silly.