Hope

Throughout the campaign President-Elect Obama was constantly criticized for his lofty rhetoric but I blog today to ask this question, What's wrong with inspiration? What's wrong with believing in something? What's wrong in hoping for a better future? Work without vision is useless work and hope is not blind idealism. "Hope is more than the sunny view that everything will turn out right; it is believing you have the will and the way to accomplish your goals." Regardless of race, political affiliation and dispositions we all tell our children, the future leaders of the world, that they can dream as big as they want. But when a five year old wants to be President what do you think fuels his dream? Hope, is the answer. The greatest of leaders have used words in ways that have changed the course of history. Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Martin Luther King Jr., Thomas Jefferson, John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Barack Hussein Obama have all used words to change perceptions of a people, of a nation. They have used words to bring the world to their vantage points and ultimately to the next step on the journey of this nation. History shows who were right and who were wrong. I ask only one question, which do you want to be?