In the hierarchy of holidays, I’ve often felt like Thanksgiving gets cheated. Christmas decorations and ads are springing up earlier each year, and it seems like the world wants to rush past November and get right to the carols, lights, nativity scenes and gift giving.

Don’t get me wrong; I’m the one who drives people in my house insane with Christmas music, beginning the day after Thanksgiving and lasting until January 6th, which marks the Epiphany and concludes the Twelve Days of Christmas.

It’s just that there’s something special about sitting around the dinner table at Thanksgiving with family and, at times, dear friends, reflecting on our blessings and thanking God for them.

Every Thanksgiving, I like going around the table and asking my wife and kids to recite what they’re most thankful for this year.

This Thanksgiving is going to be different, though. My wife has described this year as the worst of her life, and that brings me such sadness because it’s my circumstances that are responsible for her pain.

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As I write this, it’s 1:35 am in Solomons, Maryland. It’s a bittersweet time for me because some of the races in which I was personally invested didn’t turn out as I’d hoped, but the overall outcome was historic, and a repudiation of the radical direction in which President Obama has taken this nation the past two years. It remains to be seen if he has the humility of a true public servant and accepts the verdict of the people as a directive to change his current course.

Frankly, I’m not hopeful. He has already indicated he thinks we are bitter, misinformed, angry and therefore not thinking clearly, incapable of grasping the complexity or appreciating the goodness of his agenda – he’s stopped just short of calling us ignorant, uneducated hillbillies. If he attempted to process the fact that Americans do indeed understand his policies and reject them, I believe his brain would short-circuit.

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Ron Miller speaks to the Tuesday Bloggers Briefing at the Heritage Foundation on September 14, 2010 about his book, SELLOUT: Musings from Uncle Tom’s Porch.