Tuesday
Jan202009
God bless America!
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 8:06AM It's an auspicious day in the USA. Obama is, if nothing else, symbolic of change, and I wish him well. He's one of the few politicians in the world one might feel likely to pray for, as St Paul commands. So, along with the rest of the world apart from Iran, I hope for great things from him. But there's an old Arab proverb, "Trust in God and tie up your camel," and that's about where I am. When I look at the way the world has changed in the last 8 years, I fear for this president in the same way that I would have feared for Kennedy if I'd been old enough.
Where does the confidence of youth go?
Now that I have nephews and nieces in either tertiary education or working for a living, pronouncing eagerly on their plans for the future, engaging with life full on and enjoying the challenge, making decisions with square-jawed confidence, I wonder whether I was like that at their age.
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