Obama - The first term

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

I am hopeful that we can repair some of our international relationships. Around the world people love Americans and hate our government. We had such a sympathetic outpouring post 9/11 which we seemed to squander in a bullying need for revenge. It would be nice for other countries to want to work with us again and not just play good cop to our bad cop.

It'd be nice if the economy would stabalize, but honestly I don't think Obama has much power over that.

I'm encouraged by Obmam charisma, and hope he uses it to inspire us to great things, that's where the real power of the presidency is. I have to say, his election has made me more proud to be an American in that we can go through this process and hopefully reinvent ourselves in the world.

So what you are saying is we should not ask what Obama can do for us but rather what we can do for Obama?

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

So what you are saying is we should not ask what Obama can do for us but rather what we can do for Obama?

For me, yeah. Obama=country and my fellow citizens.

I'm not going to be very good at expressing this, but I made a personal vow right at the start of the primary season, if Obama were to win the election, I'd make it a point to step up to the plate and do something.

On a local level, community service, volunteering, something, to help someone else or something else. I've got two things in mind I can give time (and money) to, literacy, reading programs for adults and kids, and local work, I was going to go for AIDS work and education, but dammit, the Prop 8 thing has made me mad, so I am going to spend some time on this. Channel the anger about the unfairness into action, what else can I do? I cannot just let this slide.

Anyway, my who feeling about the Change and Yes We Can is just that, it's not only Obama who has made a pledge (he will do what he can in DC and around the world), at home, it's up to me to do my part.