Mr. President, whatever did you mean by that?  Were you addressing the huge crowds at your Inauguration who, only minutes

before, booed outgoing President George W. Bush? Or were you addressing the 57 million who voted for your opponent?

Or were you addressing the Founders?  America was a much younger nation when they were around. Is your coro—er

inauguration the mandate to remake America—in other words—fix what you consider her birth defects?

Were you even addressing the Republicans and conservative Democrats in Congress in a veiled message that opposing you is

childish?

Is that the childish activity you want us to dispense with?

Your aides certainly conveyed their eagerness to undo the executive orders of your predecessor, especially the ban on federally

funded abortions.  Apparently, opposing conservatives is mature behavior by any means necessary.  And the sooner the better.

Mr. President, I submit to you that many of the childish things you spoke of have been done in your name by many of those in your

own party.  And it didn’t start with you.

Booing outgoing President Bush, who kept this nation safe since 9-11 is just the latest immature salvo delivered by your supporters.  

Your tokenism “thank you” was hollow, especially considering the fact that Speaker Pelosi is open to criminal investigations of

officials in the outgoing Administration.

Apparently it may not only be childish to oppose you.  It may also be criminal.

At a number of inaugural balls you attended, you told us that you need us working with you to remake America.

Why does America need to be remade?  Did the Founders screw it up?  Or do you really mean to remake America in your own

image?  

Do you really mean that it is a childish thing for anyone to disagree with you?  

Will your aides accuse anyone disagreeing with you with racism?  I sincerely hope not.

Mr. President, 57 million people did not vote for you.  And these 57 million have ideas of how this nation should proceed.  And

these ideas are at variance with yours. As President of all the people, you should have a willingness to listen.  And that willingness

should transcend the mere lip service of a patronizing politician.

Or maybe the real childishness is a little closer to home—like in your own party.

Your liberal colleagues don’t like to lose.  For that matter, neither does anyone else, however, liberal losers are some of the biggest

crybabies in the world. In 1994, for example, in Houston, where Republican judges won the majority of judgeships, one of the local

TV stations showed a virtual temper tantrum from one of the vanquished Democrats, Eileen O’Neal, who, during the 1992

Republican convention in Houston, issued an executive order forbidding any pro lifer within 100 feet of an abortion clinic.

Imagine that—your politics determines whether or not you can walk on a public sidewalk.

Under that order, pro lifers were arrested en masse and thrown in jail.  The order was later declared unconstitutional by the Texas

Supreme court, but the damage was done.

In 1994, when Republicans won elections across the country and captured the majority in Congress, ABC commentator Peter

Jennings declared that the electorate had a, “temper tantrum”.

Pray tell what would he have said had the Democrats retained their majority?

Maybe I shouldn’t even bring up the election of George W. Bush in 2000.  Your colleagues insisted that the election was stolen and

preceded with trying to block absentee ballots cast by “brave Americans who at this very hour patrol far off deserts and

distant mountains”.  

They had something to say with their ballots, Mr. President.  But you and your cronies didn’t want to hear it.  And it’s doubtful you do now.

It appears that our military personnel are “brave” when it suits your political expediency.  When it doesn’t, like in 2000, their voices

can and should be dispensed with.  Let’s not forget that the last Democrat president, William Jefferson Clinton, was more than

willing to use the military as a laboratory for social experimentation.  After all, Mr. Clinton loathed the military.

And lest we forget, according to LCOL Buzz Patterson, the military officers who carried the nuclear football once considered

resigning en masse.  However, they concluded that they were serving the Office of the Presidency and not its occupant of the

moment.  For reference, this is described in Patterson's book, Dereliction of Duty.

These facts should be very sobering to you as you begin your presidency.

And so, Mr. President, ask not whether we should put away childish things, ask who is being childish.  And then, sir, please look in

the nearest mirror.

“We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things.”

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I

put away childish things.