by Bryce Edward Johnston

First of all, please allow me to add my congratulations to those of others on your election to the Presidency of the United States. Upon your inauguration, you will join just forty-three other men who have held this office in 216 years. It is not only a privilege and an honor, but an awesome and grave responsibility.
 You are becoming the President. You are not becoming our master, our ruler, our overseer, or our king. When you take office, I will be one of 300 million Americans who will become your employer.

In spite of, or possibly because of some of the information coming out in the media, I would like to make you aware of a few things I’m not sure you understand.

For starters, with only 53% of the vote, you do not have a mandate to inflict wholesale changes on the form of government we now enjoy. I would like you to know that I have not lived for over 56 years in a free and open society only to see those God-given freedoms taken away. I am not now, nor ever will be, a ward of the State; I am a free man.

I did not, nor will I work to produce wealth only to see you confiscate it in the name of “fairness” and “redistribution.”

I did not go through training classes and licensing to own a firearm only to see you send out minions to take it away from me.

I did not produce and raise three sons only to see them live as serfs under an Obama regime.

Finally, I did not serve six years in the United States Navy to protect this Nation and its Constitution only to see you assume office and trash everything we have stood for for over two centuries.

So, I want you to know, Mr. President-elect, that if you honor our Constitution in the Spirit and Letter in which it was written, including and especially the First and Second Amendments, I will be your staunchest supporter.

However, if, as I expect you will, you move to eliminate political speech with which you disagree, by re-instituting the Fairness Doctrine, or other measures that destroy conservative and Christian talk radio;
If you interfere with the basic right of law abiding citizens to keep and bear arms for the purposes of self defense as well as sport;
If you deploy a “domestic army” to spy on us, regulate us or otherwise interfere with our God-given rights;
Or, if you enact draconian tax laws that destroy the Engine of small business that creates the majority of jobs in America:
Then, you will have me and over 58 million, (I suspect more) Americans to answer to.

So, Godspeed, Mr. Obama in your endeavors as our 44th president.

I pray that after you place your hand on the Holy Bible, raise your right hand to God, and swear to “preserve and protect the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic” that you will do just that.
That you will not become one of those “domestic enemies” of our Constitution, and realize the gravity of the Office you have taken on.
Yes, the Constitution is flawed, but only inasmuch as it was written by Men. You would be hard pressed, though, to find more inspired and inspiring prose outside of Holy Scripture.

My prayer for you is that you will be humbled by the knowledge that you stand on the shoulders of giants,  who have kept this nation free and prosperous for over 232 years.

President-elect Obama, may you rely on God to light your path.

 

Sincerely,
 

Bryce Edward Johnston

Wyandotte, MI

( I blog at www.wordpress.com/brycom52. I also posted this letter at www.michaelsteinshow.com)