Jan 20 2009
The World Watched
We watched as another President was sworn in. Nothing so new to us, in America; in The US to be more specific, yet I was awed today, not in just sharing the joy and hope his election brings, but from my friends online, who watched the Inaugeration with me. A woman in Switzerland, in the banking sector, told me her job let out early so they could watch. Australia watched; Germany; England; France…… does it awe you to realize that it seems the ENTIRE world watched Mr. Obama swear in ? This isn’t just for us, people … it’s also for the World. That magnitude never sank in on me until today. I never considered it, really. I knew we had some we admired, despite their troubles, some we tolerated and were glad to see gone; now it seems, one we will adore. I wish him all that is good; I hope he is as good as he seems. We needed a strong leader for so long; I think we found one.