The "O" name

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Probably the most talked about, written about person in the past several months - Obama.

It's a buzz up in here, almost every channel I tune into is saying something or the other about the man and his up coming inauguration.
Mich was a little puzzled about why they want Obama to say so many things - time to educate. I explained to him how Obama was going to make a promise and what that meant.

It's great to be right here when America is making history.

I get teary eyed watching videos of Martin Luther King Jr making his "I have a dream" speech 46 years ago - "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'"
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

Seeing Obama live that dream today- is absolutely awesome!

People are coming from every place that you can imagine to witness the 1st black president of America take his oath. As I watched on TV;- children, grandmas', fathers', sisters', grandpas', mothers', brothers', uncles', friends', strangers', foreigners' gather at Washington square in the freezzzzzing cold (quite honestly I don't know how they do that) to witness this momentus occassion.

Lots of people have lost their jobs, their homes, dear ones in war but they are all looking up with hope, a hope for something new, something good, something different. This can be very daunting for one man, clearing up someone else's mess and also meeting the peoples expectations ( which are as different as night and day). One vibe that I was getting though is that even though some people are like some Africans who elect you to power and then sit back expecting you to do all the work, Americans are taking heed to Kennedy's words "ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country". It's encouraging to hear people take the responsibility and know that all Barack is doing is giving them a pillow to dream on and hope to keep those dreams alive.

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