For the first time in my adult life I am marking the days until our presidential election. This anticipation is the direct result of having an opportunity to vote for a truly inspirational figure - Barack Obama. I can only imagine my parents, as young adults, having this same glimmer of what the world could be when voting for JFK. Although I think this time instead of generating a vision of furthering an already great nation, we need to restore our country and people.
We all know how insipient greed has lead to slowdown of our economy, but I am confident that it will be restored in due time. What I am looking forward to is repairing the integrity of our nation and as important eliminating the fision of our world's people. Obama may not be able to accomplish this in one term or even two, but I believe he is capable of establishing the path that will allow for this to occur. Of course there will be many challenges domestically (economy, energy, climate, social programs, healthcare, etc.) and with foreign policy (economy, two wars, politicaly instability, etc.) on which he will be tested and measured. My hope is that a quarter century from now we will be able to point to Nov 4, 2008 as the day that helped to change the direction of our global people and the planet we inhabit.
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