Tomorrow, the country will have the first bench-mark in which to judge our new president. The first 100 days of a president's term has historically become the rubric and a foreshadow of what to expect the next 1,360 (possibly more) days to come.
There will be those that say he has been remarkable and those that will claim he has made the country worse. Pundits will use statistics and create projections, each skewed in a manner to support their case. And while they will argue about the data, I would rather point out an intangible that I believe President Obama has brought to the table in his opening act as our commander-in-chief. President Obama has given the country optimism.
Now I wanted to use the word "hope" there but I didn't. I believe the country has had hope for a while now. However, it wan not until Obama took the reins and began leading this country did people actually believe that we might be able to pull ourselves out of this mess that we are knee-deep in. Most of the country believes the United States is on the right track again and that changed our "hope" to optimism. And we all know you have to believe if you want to achieve!
So while it's good for us to listen to the numbers and the arguments tomorrow just remember, not everything can be measured with a percentage and a graph. And perhaps that is the most important aspect we would be studying after President Obama's first 100 days.
No comments:
Post a Comment