"It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled. Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states. We are, and always will be, the United States of America," said Barack Hussein Obama in Grant Park on November 4th, 2008.
The most historic day in my lifetime.
A few months earlier, Obama addressed the largest crowd of his life in Berlin and said, "the road ahead will be long. But I come before you to say that we are heirs to a struggle for freedom. We are a people of improbable hope. With an eye toward the future, with resolve in our hearts, let us remember this history, and answer our destiny, and remake the world once again."
That hope, that Obama shared with Berlin and the rest of the world, is the very thing that the United States needs most. Hope. Change. These are the words that won Obama the Presidency. Will they actually come to fruition? Who knows.
But I do have hope.
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