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Conservatives, real conservatives, are by now thoroughly nauseated from all of the inaugural gushing and fawning over Obama. But if they thought that this slobber-fest was going to end now that he has assumed the presidency, they are going to be sorely disappointed. The leftist cheerleaders will continue trumpeting the supposed grandeur and majesty of this day long after its fabricated luster has thoroughly dulled in the eyes of the thinking public.

Such unbridled jubilation is particularly disturbing, given the degree to which those on the left sought to demean and undermine every facet of the Bush Presidency from the very day the U.S. Supreme Court told the State of Florida to stop playing games with the recount, thus declaring George W. Bush the winner of the 2000 election.

Ever since, virtually every presidential event in which President Bush participated has been subject to widespread and juvenile caterwauling from the left. From the price tag for his 2001 inauguration (less than a third of the cost of Obama's, but we hear no complaints now), to his May 1, 2003 carrier landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln, to his exit from the White House last Tuesday, the liberal establishment was shameless in its determination to disparage every official statement or act of the former president.

It makes no difference to liberals that their derision exacted an enormous toll on America's reputation in the world. The political stakes are too high to allow mere concern for country to interfere with the advancement of their agenda. All that matters is political gain for the left, and if Americans suffer as a result, that is only "collateral damage."

The liberal media/Democrat cabal well knows the power of political "momentum," and therefore, just as they incessantly sought to undermine George Bush's standing among average citizens over the past eight years, they now intend to capitalize on their current energy to its fullest extent. Truth is not necessary to this effort. Rather, it is enough to simply declare Obama's inherent greatness and the glory of the hour, while castigating all who would dare to argue otherwise.

Yet none of this is really new. In the days following Bill Clinton's decidedly unspectacular electoral victory in 1992 (with a paltry forty-three percent of the popular vote), Democrat mouthpieces, predictably accompanied by their media parrots, declared the event a "national mandate" for the Clinton agenda. And while the election of the Arkansas Governor broke no new demographic ground, the nation was nonetheless bludgeoned incessantly with talk of his potential greatness, along with that of the overbearing new First Lady.

The song "Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow" was repeated so frequently that it took on the qualities of a pagan chant. All that had gone wrong in America under twelve years of right wing extremism (read: Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush) was about to change. The advent of the Clinton Administration would certainly be, in the words of Inaugural Poet Maya Angelou "Morning in America."

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