Well, the President of the United States has been decided.\u00a0 Obama won.\u00a0 I honestly can’t say that I’m disappointed.<\/p>\n
No president would do all of the things that I want him to do, but I think Obama is going to steer this country in the right direction.\u00a0 Less foreign intervention, more multilateralism and better relations with our allies, more economic regulation, etc.<\/p>\n
The only thing I’m really worried about is the fact that the Democrats have such a commanding lead in the Senate–I would rather have the branches of government balanced between the parties, especially when one party nearly has the sixty votes necessary to ride out a fillibuster.\u00a0 But I’m not too worried.<\/p>\n
Obama’s acceptance speech was very good.\u00a0 I like how he emphasized his family and his wife.\u00a0 The more I listen to him, the more he strikes me as a well-meaning, honest family man.\u00a0 He just seems like a clean statesman in a country filled with ridiculous political scandals.\u00a0 It’s going to be interesting to see who he picks as his advisors and cabinet members.<\/p>\n
So, overall, I can’t say I’m disappointed.\u00a0 I’m optimistic that the next four years will see increased American credibility in the world and a government that can stand up to the domestic crises of our times and lead us through.\u00a0 We’ll see whether I’m wrong.<\/p>\n
The election issue that I’m most interested in, however, is Prop 8 in California<\/a>.\u00a0 This isn’t just because I served my mission there–it’s because I think that this election will deal a decisive blow to either the gay-rights movement or the traditional family.\u00a0 I wholeheartedly believe that marriage is an institution between a man and a woman, and that the state should uphold this institution defined as such.\u00a0 In a dramatic move, the LDS church has stepped into this issue and mobilized its adherents across the nation to vote, volunteer, fast, and pray for this ballot initiative to pass.<\/p>\n Fortunately, it looks like it’s going to happen.\u00a0 We’ll know for sure in the morning.\u00a0 I’m almost too nervous to watch, but inshallah, it will happen.<\/p>\n In the meantime, not a lot of writing today.\u00a0 Between elections, homework, and exhaustion, I slipped in about 570 words.\u00a0 Not bad, but I want to keep those pointers in the red all through November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, the President of the United States has been decided.\u00a0 Obama won.\u00a0 I honestly can’t say that I’m disappointed. No president would do all of the things that I want him to do, but I think Obama is going to steer this country in the right direction.\u00a0 Less foreign intervention, more multilateralism and better relations… Continue reading Hooray for Obama!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[599],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-thoughts-reflections","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-4F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}