President Barack Obama

The country has spoken. We now have a President, one of a multi-cultural heritage. It is my great hope that such a perspective unique to the role until now will be an advantageous one. With a country at war and at the brink of financial ruin, it'll be interesting to see what the bottom-up approach can do.



I personally am afraid of the increased financial burden that President Bush and Congress has put on our nation to bail us out of the financial market meltdown. I'm equally afraid of what President-elect Obama and Congress will enact in the next four years. But I am willing to follow his lead. And as pessimistic as I am of the future, one shining area is this: The United States can rebuild its bonds with the rest of the world. Those bonds and relationships that have been shaken or sundered, that have undermined are abilities cannot be rebuilt. It is possible to reestablish the bridges between peoples and countries that have been neglected. While I do not know if a man like Mr. Obama is the kind of man we need to assuage those who seek to hurt us through their hate, I believe that he is the kind of man that can strengthen us through our alliances.

May God save us all.