FOUR MORE YEARS

In four years, what will they say about him?

As I watched the two men, one with past purpose and one with future promise, stroll warmly together down the White House colonnade, I couldn’t help but ponder what our nation will say of Barack Obama in four more years…

Will his promise of change result in productive policy?

Will he still be the media’s darling?

Will his proximity to the pulse of our nation alter his current perspective?

Will he be a bipartisan leader – representing more than those on the fringe right or left?

Will those on the fringe be pleased?

Will his sweet, young girls mature too quickly, or will they remain a contagious symbol of joy?

Will his wife be a gracious, global ambassador, or will she have her own domestic agenda?

Will they refer to all of his policies as heralding from a failed administration?

And will he be treated with the respect that all Presidents deserve?

My hope is that over the course of his first term, not only will Obama be respected, but he, too, will have a far greater respect for the others who have walked that colonnade. We miss that. Our perspectives are too polarized. So here’s to those who have led our nation well… men who have led from the most coveted, earthly office… who have left self ambition behind.

I hope that’s what they’ll say.

AR