Hope.

[kyrielle]

Welcome to office, Mr. President. We elected you with hope. Please do your best to live up to our hopes, to clean up what needs it and to leave well enough alone when that is needed. You can't do this without us - from Congress on down - also trying and I hope we remember that. I hope you do also; you will need to work for consensus and compromise.

I have a little baby, not yet two weeks old, on my lap. He's a bundle of innocent potential and what he's thinking I don't know yet. I know it's my responsibility to nurture him and help him learn to deal with and find a place in the world tho. There are a lot of little ones not unlike him in our country. Please do your best by them, as far as your contributions to shaping the world they'll grow up in.

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Comments

[geordie.livejournal.com]

I hope our new president can deliver on the expectations.

[kyrielle]

I hope so too but most of all I hope he doesn't directly fail them. A lot of what needs fixed requires Congress to act also and while I expect him to do his best to persuade them, he can't force them.

[geordie.livejournal.com]

GWB did a lot to run roughshod over government, I'd like to see Obama overturn a lot of that stuff. It would be nice to see him pardon some of the deserving cases that Bush ignored too, GWB had little mercy in Texas and didn't get any better in the Whitehouse.