Oh Obama

I was thinking back to President Obama’s Obama inaugural speech. Obama delivered a sobering speech with eloquence and humility. He looked into the crowd’s eyes and challenged us to stand up and take responsibility. Barrack Obama is the most important president to be elected in my lifetime. He takes office in a very critical point in America’s history. He has to be ready for the enormous challenges that await him; economy, war, environment, jobs, housing, healthcare. All issues that typically are a part of the candidate’s campaign platform. But this time is different. I believe the enormity of the challenges call for a leader with unwavering commitment to solving the issues instead of the usual lip service. I truly believe Obama is the right man, at the right time. He will need the help of all Americans. We must all take greater responsibility going forward with the same enthusiasm as was demonstrated during the presidential campaign. If we face each challenge with the same passion, energy and hope then we will overcome the current crisis and emerge a much stronger nation.

We have a great responsibility to come up with solutions to saving the earth and its depleting resources. Stephen Jay Gould, a paleontologist from Harvard once profoundly stated, “The earth does need us but we need the earth”. In the current version of the motion picture The Day the Earth Stood Still, the woman asks the alien, played by Keanu Reaves, “you said earlier that you came to save us”. “No, we came to save the earth, from the humans. I hope that our newly elected leaders start taking the environmental issues seriously. The evidence is overwhelming that if we do not act and change the way we live with respect to our environment then who knows what kind of planet our grandchildren will inherit.