CHANGE HAS COME!!!

You are all invited to…

It’s been about a week since my last blog. This was done on purpose. For the last week I’ve been trying hard to find the words for inauguration day. I am 30-years-old and besides my wedding and the Phillies winning the World Series this will truly be a surreal kind of experience. Before I dive into my feelings surrounding this occasion, I must make 2 disclaimers….

1. This is not a political blog. I will only comment on the biggest political moments.
2. In full disclosure, I am a moderate independent. My voting record will show that I strongly support Democrats on the federal level and Republicans on the local level. I through my support behind Barack Obama about 6 months into his campaign.

But today’s change of power isn’t about me. It is about a man who represents a fresh set of eyes and no strings attached approached to government. A man who will lead our country and not because of the color of his skin but because of his quality of his character.

America puts our trust in him. Yes, he is somewhat wealthy because of his literary works but he has less money than any other president of our generation. In other words, our problems are his problems too and he did not run because he was entitled to it but because he felt that “fierce urgency of now.” He is literally serving to save his own family. In a recent article with Parade Magazine, he eluded that he ran for the sake of his daughters.

My blog isn’t to convince you to support him as I think he already has that in his favor. My blog is to rejuvenate and rededicate yourselves as proud Americans. There are obviously a lot of social, economic and foreign issues facing our country. I don’t expect him to fix everything every night but I think if we watch enough bi-partisan news sources, we have the sense that he will recapture our American spirit and catapult our nation into a new direction.

Think what you may about the previous administration but the truth can’t hide several wars, a recession, crippled foreign relations and the highest unemployment level in over 60-years.

This is a new day with a man who can be best described as the comic book hero of legislation. A man who has a white mother, black father, Philippine sister, Chinese Brother-in-law and Canadian niece. A man who in two years of being in the public, never lost his cool and stayed completely on message about change in America. A message so strong that nearly every politician in America tried to piggyback on that one word.

Today as I watch the pomp and circumstance, I know this is a day I want to be photographed in my memory. I want to have children just so I can tell them about the day that Barack Obama became our 44^th president of the United States.