The US has changed culturally the most in my lifetime. I can remember the disdain and scorn people got when they were married to different races. Now, if you don't have some sort of minority in your family tree, YOU are in the minority. I still trip seeing the old white grandpa holding hands with his little black grandkids. My kids won't trip at this. That's progress. That's change.
Technology has shruken our world. Now, I cannot hide anywhere and usually I want to be found. I have friends around the country and world and I can talk to them and even see them like some Jetson's episode. Information is everywhere, mostly for free. Being a public figure or a private figure has blurred with out camera phones and YouTube. All of this has taken place, but still we waste money on "Bridges to Nowhere" and steroids investigations. When are we going to have a cure for AIDS, cancer, heart disease. Are these Darwanian Holy Grails that we will never find a cure for because if we did, everyone would live forever??? When are we going to realize that autism in our little boys and girls is threatening our future and needs to have as much resources devoted to finding a cure as we do to finding Bin Laden???
So many things have happened since November 4, 2008. Hope springs eternal and it feels like it springs infinitely. There's so many issues we have as a PEOPLE, as a HUMAN RACE, that can one mans' election to the highest office of the world's super power fix them all? Doubtful, yes. But, I have a feeling that he's going to try. And if, A VERY BIG IF, he does succeed and leads us to fix what ails society, then OBAMA might be the new spelling for JESUS.
He's already performed one miracle...
