Wow. New President, More Positive Future?

We have a new President. Barak Obama, citizen of the world and proud American is our leader. I’m sitting here after watching the coverage on TV and i feel drained. I feel exhausted, I feel hopeful and nervous.

I’m hopeful that President-elect Obama can fulfill his vision and if he stands in the possibility of healing the world “one block at a time”, as he says, I believe he’ll do it.  I feel a sense of pride and belonging like after 9/11 when parties didn’t matter and we were all just Americans.

I’m nervous, though, because I don’t trust George Bush not to do something stupid in the time he has left. Megalomaniac that he is, I’m not sure he won’t create a real mess in the Middle East (as if the one we’re already in isn’t enough) and walk away from it and drop it in Obama’s lap.

I’m usualy not the activist in the family.  I tend to be more a-political, personally, because i’ve been so disillusioned by what I have seen being done from the White House in the name of security but hs been mostly and obviously ego. I’m sure we all are feeling a renewed sense of hope and I pray the groundswell will carry us all high into prosperity once again.

I do not follow Democratic or Republican ideals – I follow human ideals.  I wonder what will happen now for really small business such as my own.  Both candidates spoke of tax breaks/cuts, options, rebates, and stimulus checks, but neither mentioned the really small fry, the solopreneur. Even Business Week was talking about the small business impact according to the SBA, but they were still talking about businesses that make over $250,000 a year.

Many of my clients don’t make a quarter of that, yet. What do they have to look forward to?

We’ll have to see.