At noon today, Barack Hussein Obama became the 44th President of the United States.

I did not vote for him.

I cannot imagine any circumstance under which I will ever vote for him.

But he is still my president for the next four years, for good or ill.

Let me close with these words I posted the day after President Obama's election in November.

I commit to offering to Barack Obama my support and respect after his inauguration -- and not the same level of support and respect that the Left showed George W. Bush. I will support Obama when he is right, but fiercely oppose him when he is wrong -- something I suspect will be more often than not. But as I said in 1993 when Bill Clinton was inaugurated, my prayer is that Barack Obama leaves this country better than it was at the beginning of his term, and am fully prepared to be pleasantly surprised if he does. After all, my country is more important to me than my party -- as it should be.