Watching the inauguration is inspiring--it's such a hopeful ceremony. We are looking to the future, and we are saying it will be better than the past. But we can't do much alone. The level of change needed requires the support of so many people, and it's selfish to think that any work worth doing can be successful unilaterally. Obama could very well have used that quote from JFK's inaugural address: "Ask not what your country can do for you..." There are so many jobs to be done, and none of them are small, even if they seem so. And there are so many places we can do this work: the economy, politics, the ENVIRONMENT--whatever. The whole world, and not just America. President Barack Obama is just the face of a changing tide--or at least that's my hope. There's nothing wrong with a little youthful idealism every now and again--so long as nationalism it is tempered.
"We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God...we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own." - Abraham Lincoln
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