In ancient Rome whenever an emergency arose the Senate appointed a "Dictator" whose words (dicta) would be law for the duration of the alloted term, after which he would surrender his authority to the two Consuls who ordinarily governed the Republic.
On the eve of the Inauguration of a new President, the national economic emergency may seem like it calls for a dictator, or a savior, but fortunately for this Republic President-Elect Obama is not one. He will struggle as all presidents do to control his own party and to win over the opposition. He will do things that his countrymen will admire and others which they will disdain. We hope and pray that he will protect all human life from conception to natural death, though his legislative history and his appointments so far give us little such hope.
Yet, the office can change the man, and so as he begins his term we offer him our prayers, and our support in those things in which we can.
St. John Neumann, pray for him and for our land.
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On the eve of the Inauguration of a new President, the national economic emergency may seem like it calls for a dictator, or a savior, but fortunately for this Republic President-Elect Obama is not one. He will struggle as all presidents do to control his own party and to win over the opposition. He will do things that his countrymen will admire and others which they will disdain. We hope and pray that he will protect all human life from conception to natural death, though his legislative history and his appointments so far give us little such hope.
Yet, the office can change the man, and so as he begins his term we offer him our prayers, and our support in those things in which we can.
St. John Neumann, pray for him and for our land.
SPQR
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