Monday, June 8, 2009

My President

Footage of him reaching out his slender brown hand to shake those of the ladies seated adjacent to the door surfaces in my memory over, and over again.
He stood at the burger joint for one reason... lunch.
He bought the staff's entire lunch with money of his own that he earns being the leader of the free world. That's some receipt.
He embodies everything I have ever been taught-no one is better than the other, you have to work hard to make a buck, and it is totally possible to make dreams a reality.
The man wants to bring more peace to the world than there was yesterday, he wants to help this struggling nation feel like a part of a whole instead of individuals who have nothing in common.
My generation are a people with memories that consist more of sitcom television plots than real life experience. We have no disillusions that we are a commodity and are being passed around to the highest advertising bidder when a new show our demographic is keen to.
We will buy anything if they put it in the right package.
But, I also believe that we are absolutely up for the task of doing our part. Conservation? Absolutely, we like being "green". It's a color, no it's a verb, we like it!
Peace? Hell yeah.
Can we have special concerts and wear the sign on every piece of clothing imaginable? Sure thing, we'll do that.
Help out in our community? Oky Doky, just tell me a web site to search and I will get right on that for you Mr. President, sir.
I thought that I would lose my umph after the election, but that's not it at all. He is surrounded by an aura of cool and gifted with the language skills to convey what people in this day and time need to hear to move their asses.
Hopefully this isn't totally off the subject, but there was a baby boom in 2007 even larger than the original one.
Pro: our social security will be taken care of.
Con: the time for change in every part of the spectrum is upon us and haters are going to hate themselves when they see the good that hope brings.

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