Barack Obama

May not be a huge Sequia trunk drifting along, but... in the same way we're always talking about "death by a thousand cuts", you CAN have growth by a thousand grains of sand.

Or, what I mean to say is that it's gonna be a long slog. Theres NO getting around that. BUT it's hard to not give in to despair. Or rather, hard not to totally plunge into despair and stay there.

But the fact is no matter who holds the Presidency at this period in time, that person would have to be someone really exceptional! I'm not descending into hyperbole here, either ( though I don't doubt that there are plenty of people who are just going to perceive that differently.)

So.....basically, I wish improvements would come more quickly, yes---but good to know when there's another success, because there have been MANY. But so easy to get overwhelmed--because everything IS so dire.

I can't imagine any other politician, or ANY actual current living person, in the same position as the President. Not without being pretty sure they'd crumble.