Change

I wanted to wait a few days before I posted about Barack Obama's resounding victory at the polls in the US to gain some perspective for myself instead of posting an emotional self serving monologue. So I will just say these few words.

                    

This week was indeed one for the history books filled with triumphs and promises of change along with the denial of rights. The first black American President yet the most liberal of all US states bans gay marriage.

The world is changing yet one thing seems to stay as static as the necessity of cyclic change. However, the thing I think we ought to take away from it all is that despite what people may believe or accept that change can indeed come. If one of the most judgemental, label driven, institutionally racist nations can elect Obama, a biracial citizen, then change can come in even the most intolerant of places.

I firmly believe that as a global leader the US can affect change by example. As a child I saw them as a shining star now as an adult I began to see them as a form of pestilence that afflicted the earth. Now at this point I will give the USA a second chance to clean up its act and return to its former glory. If they do not purge their ill ways I believe they will take the entire world down with them. So for this reason I am hoping that Mr. Barack H. Obama can turn things around.

I feel that Mr. Obama will emerge as one of the greatest Presidents of all time. He has all the tools and assets as well as the perspective to become a political force unlike we've seen in our generation.

So what this whole thing means to me is that out of adversity ascends greatness and the path to such greatness lives within us all. If we can strip away all the fluff that society uses to infringe upon our humanity then our true greatness can indeed echo throughout eternity. Now in the words of Barack H. Obama, now one of the great leaders of the world. YES WE CAN!

Believe It! Achieve It! Live It!

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