Today Barak Obama is ceremonially sworn in as president again. Taking a few moments to look back as the former presidents Carter and Clinton walk on screen, and watching the lively bounce in Hilary Clinton's step.... Wow.
So much power and determination in one place today. We all want the same thing: a great and sturdy America, capable of not only being all that she can be, but of empowering other countries to be the same.
Why must politics complicate such an honorable, reachable goal?
Do we all need to go back to the sandbox, and re-learn basic human courtesy? Jeez.
This could be a very hopeless, meaningless, fraudulent moment in American history, where the world looks at us and sees through the ceremony and the circumstance to the arguing and name-calling and nit-picking that makes up American politics. But you know what? It doesn't feel that way. This feels real and hopeful and determined. American politicians all over are setting aside everything for just a few minutes of unity, and whether or not you support Obama, it doesn't matter; the PEOPLE chose him, and the direction he has set for this journey agrees with majority of Americans. So let's see where it goes, and if in four years we don't like it, we'll change our minds and our president. If we like it, we'll elect somebody who will continue this journey.
No matter what, we'll do this as we always have: as Americans.
And that's a darned cool thing to be.
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