Well, we did it guys and gals. Obama actually won! Now, if only he can follow through on his campaign promises, and live up to the needs and expectations of all those young people who helped to get him elected, so that they don't become resigned and jaded like the rest of us.
I never thought I'd say this, but maybe 8 years of Bush was a good thing. Perhaps we were like alcoholics - we had to hit rock bottom before we could see the error of our ways, and begin to climb out of this hole we have dug for ourselves. Susan Wittig Albert just left a great posting over at the new SCN blog, Telling HerStories: The Broad View (http://storycircle.typepad.com). I particularly liked this line: "I believe that our journey through this life is the process of giving up our illusions about what is fun, safe, easy, free. Giving up illusions is transformative. Documenting changes in ourselves can move us--mercifully--toward growth and maturity."
My prayer is that Obama can take America, not back to where we were before Bush, but forward, to a new place. A simpler, greener, more down-to-earth place. A place where we can work together for the greater good, instead of alone for the almighty dollar. Hey, it could happen! Couldn't it?
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While it's easy to pin the last eight years on Bush, the last 30 years in America without decent leadership of any sort is not quite so easy to explain. The president makes an easy scapegoat, but it's the overarching ineffectiveness of the rest of government that made the system as a whole look so bloody inept.
This is not a new problem. One man's not going to fix it, but at least it's a step in the right direction.
I hope.
You are, of course, exactly right.
I like your thought of not only moving forward, but to a new place.
"The Big Picture" blog, which if you are unfamiliar is a weekly feature sponsored by the Boston Globe and coordinated by Alan Taylor, did their photographic perspective this week on President-elect Obama.
Check it out here:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/11/the_next_president_of_the_unit.html
While you're there, take a moment to go through their previous posts. There are some phenomenal pictures on that site!
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