20 Reasons I am Thankful that Barack Obama became President

1. He has broken the race barrier.  Any man or woman who wants to become President now has a chance.  The playing field has been leveled.  He has demonstrated that we will accept and receive people no matter of race, creed or color;  All three of which are the President's differentiations.
2. He has released a vigorous black conservative opposition  to policies in the nation that are damaging (as we see it).  They have given voice to saying things that white folks couldn't say.
3. Black Conservative candidates are coming out and taking their place as real contenders for high office.  I am thankful for their courage and support them.
4. The Tea Party was born... for that alone I am thankful to President Obama. He is the catalyst that will retool an anemic Republican party into a powerful conservative cause.
5. His Presidency has exposed the race bating Reverends for what they are.  They have no foil and so they have become inept echoes.  When is the last time you heard any of them say anything that really mattered?
6. He has generated respect for the nuclear family, his own.  I honor that.
7. His polices have been so badly executed that it demonstrates the total bankruptcy of his liberal political philosophy.  Obamacare is the poster child for this.  The idea of voting for a bill to find out what is in it has become a war cry against bad government by conservatives.   Liberal policies are getting harder and harder to sell.  I am thankful for that.
8. The cronyism corruption he used to populate his cabinet and staff has demonstrated how void of ethics his kind of "Chicago Style" governance really is and the scandalous results of it's execution.  This won't be seen again soon.  He has set a low bar that will cause successors to rise above.  I am thankful for that.
9. His social and moral stands on issues like Abortion, Gay Marriage, Islamic Law, Military Homosexuality and many other formerly taboo subjects has drawn a line in the sand that many are realizing that the slippery slope down which we are falling is too far.   Progressiveness in these areas are proving to be horror shows in our culture.  Backing away from them will be difficult, but we will back away.  I am not thankful for the loss of basic morality, but I am thankful that people must now chose which side they will take.  God's side or the side of Hell.  "Choose this day" is now ringing in people's ears who formerly supported blindly a party or person without question.  I am thankful for that.
10. His all out aggressive attack on constitutional rights has created a huge backlash of people who for the first time in their lives considered what their constitutional rights really are, or are supposed to be.  Knowing your rights is the first step to demanding or enforcing them.  We are back on that track.  Obama's attack on gun rights, privacy rights, rights of free speech, property rights and the right to assemble freely has caused a huge portion of the population to question government's intrusion in our lives and the value of our constitutional rights.  For that I am thankful.
11. The overreaching of regulatory agencies like the IRS and EPA will make it easier for a conservative successor to shut down or cramp the style of these rouge agencies.  That is a good thing and I am thankful.
12. His re election demonstrated what is wrong in America.  An ignorant uninformed electorate.  That has led to a serious examination of the indoctrination going on in our public school systems.  It has also led to a questioning of our voting policies.  Voter fraud in the last election didn't swing the result but it was a harbinger of what is wrong.  I am thankful that this has been exposed.  I HOPE it can be reversed.  Watching Jay Leno's jaywalking or other late night programs that do man on the street interviews on public issues demonstrates how ignorant people really are.   Yet they vote.  We must change that.  I am thankful that for the first time in my life, the real problem in our government is not the candidates, but the electorate.
13. I am thankful that despite the horrible economic ignorance of this administration, our economy demonstrates resilience.  It may be temporary but it is real...for now.  It give me hope that when the great crash comes, we will revive..even if it's badly broken.   We will survive the bungling.
14. I am thankful that some of the America Centric World Power meme has been broken.  Other nations who look down on our President as a weak foreign policy leader have spoken clearly about how far we have fallen.   They can't blame the USA for all its power and intervention anymore. It has not been good for the world, but it will cause a new strong leader to demonstrate what it takes to set things right once again.   It may mean an American Margaret Thatcher will arise and bring us back to international sanity.  Sometimes falling down as we have done in our incompetence means getting back up will give us courage.  Remember Winston Churchill followed Neville Chamberlain.  Reagan followed Carter. 
15. I am thankful that Obama has with his middle eastern policies and friendliness toward Islam has allowed the bankruptcy of this quasi religious political system to be exposed.  Religion of Peace were the words George Bush used... but Obama has trumped that.  Islam is now exposed as the antichrist force in the world it has always been.  President Obama with his Muslim roots has been a part of that exposure however unintentional.. For that I am thankful.
16. I am thankful that the corruption of the last 5 years has proven Dwight Eisenhower's warning about military industrial complex.  The big government big business cabal that manipulates this country is reaching too far.  Obamacare has made it worse, but when it is dissembled, that too will be repaired.  Big Government and Big Business are a force for evil when they become one.
17. I am thankful that despite the Obama administrations intentions of supporting big labor and big government with our stimulus money like the take over of General Motors and the SEIU; that big labor is being shown for what it really is, organized corruption.
18. I am thankful for the exposure of of the incompetents in Obama's political party.  It may mean that in 2014 we will find our way out of the depths of really bad governance by the stupid people in government among us. It's stunning the level of ignorance.
19. I believe God place Barack Obama in office as President as the USA as judgement and as an exemplar of how bad it can be.  He did so to show far we have fallen as a nation.  How evil the hearts of men are.  This wake up call will cause people of faith and courage to stand against the tyranny of this kind of flawed governance.  This close shave with fascism has caused many to tremble for the future of our nation.  This engagement of socialist programs has crippled a generation, but they can be healed.  I thank God for Barack H. Obama... as HE has used him like he did the Assyrians against a fallen nation.  Evil has been exposed and God is exalted.
20. IF we can now learn the lessons of the last several years, perhaps we can find our way out of the dank forest in which we are today... and emerge to become a better country.  People who voted for him because of racial or political loyalty have come to the realization that competence in government trumps race or party.  That there is no man who can give your more than you deserve other than opportunity.  The black community is slowly realizing that voting based on skin color gets you nothing.  In the rear view mirror, like the thanks many give to Carter for Reagan, we may well give thanks for Obama. I do.