Change in Command for the Commander in Chief

I hope the world’s view of the USA will shift from seeing us as a machine of empire, or like a bratty child (as a friend in New Zealand referred to it) who wants everything for itself, towards seeing us as a player in the global scene. If I were to personify the US as a country, I see it as the protagonist of a great hero epic, where the hardness of youth is softened into wisdom. Our country begins a naive, but well-intentioned, masculine child, a runaway perhaps, who disowned his ogre parents and then hit it rich in the newspaper industry, writing bombastic, inflationary headlines. Spoiled by this new wealth, his “friends’ become those who admire him and tell him he deserves anything in the world. Those who challenge his morals or sense of honor are thrown to the gutter, or made “offers they couldn’t refuse”.

    After seeming to learn his lesson and then forget it again- fluctuating from scrooge to understanding to scrooge again (Civil War, Depression...) our hero still remains unchanged. Soon the disintegration of the pomp and glamour, and the decaying of those things he took for granted, those things that were beautiful and expected (natural resources...) is mellowing our fragile boy in a hard shell. Like any hero we want to hate, those who saw it coming may snicker as he stumbles, but the wisest elders will watch with a smile, as circumstance teaches him humility. He realizes his son never knew him, and he pushed all his great loves away. He realizes no one ever truly respected him for who he is inside. He learns to respect the lives of those who lifted him to power, and to realize that we are all dependent upon one another. Hopefully, an epiphany will lead him to reach the latter conclusion before he is old and gnarly, and too feeble to make use of his once great empire for good. Because we all know men of power often die young.

At least, I HOPE our hero is reaching that stage of wisdom and understanding that his life is built on popsicle sticks and that love is the answer. If only he’d had a MOTHER figure to spank him now and again, before shizzle went all haywire.

    **Here's to the Goddess figure returning to our national identity.**

an experiment in integration that has just lost sight of its goal for a while, because it got spoiled by a rich uncle who said it could have anything it wanted. Now this child is growing up to remember its roots again- the struggle it too

i hope the opinion will shift from tyrant to collaborator. i hope america will be able to lead again, with peace and consensus and intelligence.

AMERICA FUCK YEAH!

Thank you for the insight, Ryan. We face so many problems as a world-wide community, it’s foolish to take the approach that we can fix everything alone (cough bush cough). It is so promising to hear that other parts of the world are energized by the election of Obama. The last 8 years have deeply tarnished the US’s reputation as a leader and rightfully so – my only hope is Obama re-opens communication channels and restores trust and leadership in the US.

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