President Barack Obama

Its all but official, Barack Obama will be the 44th President of the United States of America. While I did not believe that Obama was the right person for the job, I will support him 100% as my President. I hope that President Obama, along with the largest Democratic Congress since LBJ in 1964, can actually bring about change in Washington the way he promised to do so throughout his campaign. Barack Obama is in an unusual position. He has a distinct advantage in trying to implement his liberal policies given the fact that the Congress is heavily Democratic. However, because we are a center/right country as a whole, I believe that during his first couple of years in office we will be surprised at some of the policy changes he tries to bring about. I believe that Obama's presidency will be similar to Bill Clinton's in the way that Clinton used public opinion polls as a guide when making many policy changes. I hope that Barack Obama is the Yin to the ultra liberal Democratic Congress' Yang. I hope that he even throws some policies in there that would make the Republicans happy. I'm very interested to see what the makeup of his cabinet looks like over the next couple of months and the caliber of people he surrounds himself with. I think the country as a whole needs to support this man who, whether we like it or not, was elected to the office in a system that is the envy of the entire world. Politics aside, some of the decisions he makes over the next four years will greatly impact our lives so waiting and even hoping for him to fall on his face would not be in the best interest of America as a whole. I pray that Barack Obama will lead this country with the tenacity and the courage that he so often spoke about on the campaign trail. I pray that he will indeed improve the quality of life for the middle-class, working families out there. I pray that some of the relationships that have been damaged over the last several years will be mended and that the world as a whole will look to America as that "shining city on a hill" as so many generations before us have. I pray that our country can move past partisan politics that have crippled our government for the last five or six years and we can get back to the sense of unity that we had after the September 11th attacks. Mr Obama, you have been given the chance by the American people to bring about the change that you have been preaching about, it is a rare opportunity, don't let us down.