Obama nation: A prologue

November 5, 2:03 AMCongress ExaminerIgor Derysh

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    With the irresistably long campaign for rule of the United States ending in overwhelming victory for President-Elect Barack Obama and the Democratic party, the country must now look forward to the next two, four and eight years. While I was able to bask in the incredible victory that was the Obama landslide for several hours, I quickly grew wary of the Obama presidency for I did not want to be disappointed as so many were disappointed by the Bush and Clinton administrations. With Obama now the unequivocal victory, the question is no longer who will lead us in the trying days of the early twenty first century but whether he can lead us.

    The challenge laid at the feet of the new American regime is a need for a radical yet stable reversal of the self defeating policies of the past sixteen years as well as a change in the course of the way that decisions of policy are made in regards to domestic and foreign issues.

    No longer can government sit back and watch as a deregulated stock market regulates itself into collapse.

    No longer can the government allow its citizens to go uninsured, homeless or helpless for the simple purpose of saving a buck.

    No longer can we base our foreign policy on rule of the bomb and dismissing the possibility of peace based on public perception nor can we go on blatantly ignoring the need for a shift of a fraction of the overwhelming defense budget towards  increasingly necessary domestic programs.

    Most of all, no longer can Washington govern the United States as a sole entity in a global community. We need to act as a leader on the world stage in order to quell global issues of the economy, climate change and military crises to which no one nation can bring solution on its own.

    The leaders have been chosen, now the leaders must choose. Will our government remain hopelessyly stagnant, an inactive force, opting to govern only whhen the popular opinion polls demand they do or will it grow to its promise and become a self sufficient entity, governed by necessity and vision, leading rather than being led?

    With the midterm elections just two years away and the Presidential election just four years from now, the new President must hit the ground running as soon as he assumes office on January 20, 2009 with the 111 Congress in lockstep. There is no time to waste while leading a country that needs overwhelming reform to conquer the evils of the past and the present.

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