Editor's note: Michael Ackley's columns may include satire and parody based on current events, and thus mix fact with fiction. He assumes informed readers will be able to tell which is which.

Now that Barack Obama is headed for the White House, I'm proud to say I was among those who backed a black man to be president of the United States.

He was handsome and articulate, and a true intellectual with a Harvard degree. It certainly helped that he was a polished orator. Of course, my candidate had a record of real world achievement. He never tried to hide or dissemble his political philosophy. He campaigned on issues rather than slogans. He revered rather than reviled the United States Constitution and those who framed it.

But Alan Keyes never had a chance. He was dismissed and his message suppressed by the establishment media and snubbed by those running in the primary-campaign debates.

It was swell to hear Obama talk about the need for a new tone of civility and inter-party cooperation in Washington, D.C. As I recall, that's just what George W. Bush called for eight years ago. Soon he learned that the "loyal opposition" adhered to the definition of "compromise" in the Blind Partisan's Dictionary (BPD):

compromise: n, The concept, mutually arrived at by two parties, that Party A is right and Party B is wrong; v, the process by which two parties negotiate an agreement satisfactory to the stronger party.

If you expect anything different from Obama, consider his selection of the vicious partisan Joe Biden to be his vice president, and Chicago Rep. Rahm Emanuel to be his chief of staff. The latter is described in the most gentle of Web postings as "partisan" and in the less gentle as everything from "rabidly partisan" to "the Tony Soprano of the House." The president elect is showing us he may like the BPD definition of "civility:"

civility: n, observation of courtly forms of comportment in dispatching one's opponents; alternatively, observation of courtly forms of comportment by one's opponents.

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How to doom "gay" marriage:

Homosexual California legislator: "Let's require that the public schools teach kids about the contributions of 'gays' to history, art, politics, the sciences!"

Straight legislator: "OK, but won't that require us to tell kids about everybody's sexuality? Like Hitler's homosexual Brownshirts?"

Homophile legislator: "Naw! Let's keep it positive – and we'll tell parents any instruction will be age appropriate."

Straight Legislator: "What's age appropriate?" "Gay" legislator: "Well, we probably should start with the preschool curriculum."

This fanciful conversation isn't far removed from reality in California, where radical homosexuals have pushed an agenda demonstrating that for them "gayness" isn't just a way of life, but a proselytizing movement. And so Proposition 8 was passed, defining marriage as the union only of a man and a woman.

Proponents of the measure ran very effective television ads showing kids with homosexual school materials. The anti-8 forces fought back by trotting out Jack O'Connell, state superintendent of public instruction, to declare that Prop. 8 had "nothing to do" with education. It probably didn't help his argument that shortly before the election primary school kids were taken on a "field trip" to a lesbian marriage in San Francisco, or that a Hayward kindergarten teacher gave her 5-year-old pupils pro-homosexual pledge cards. It's too bad that truly committed souls have to suffer because the radicals made their agenda all too plain.

Whoops! California's phony budget compromise is falling apart, because the economy is going to spend some time in the tank. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed a belt-tightening solution. That is, belt tightening by the taxpayers, via a sales tax increase. The idea of cutting back to essential services never occurs to the brains in Sacramento.

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