Hopelessness Settling In!

I wrote to President Obama today to remind him of his words of hope back in Iowa. He said, “And most of all, we’ve lost faith that our leaders can or will do anything about it.”

I mentioned that my hopes for his success were probably misplaced. The screwed up system is too much for even him, and if so, what hope is there? I doubt that there will be few that will match his intellect and values and get elected.

We will most likely recall the vision of our hopes and feel pain at the reality staring us in the face. The lost opportunities for real reform in health care, banking, pollution, will be remembered more than any meager or marginal successes of legislation weaving itself through Congress.