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pennylane100

(3,425 posts) Fri May 2, 2014, 03:35 PM May 2014

I was in the middle of watching the press conference at the White House

when something came up and I put the show on pause. About an hour later I went back to hear the rest of the press conference. The frozen picture on my TV set suddenly gave me a feeling of hope that I have not had about the state of world affairs for a long time.

There were two of the world's most powerful leaders, their faces frozen in time (well at least an hour), and it suddenly gave me a feeling of hope for our future. The two powerful leaders were a female prime minister and and African American male President. This in itself does not mean that all is well with the world, but at least it shows that we (the world community) can change if we just manage to keep electing the right people for the job.

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I was in the middle of watching the press conference at the White House (Original Post) pennylane100 May 2014 OP

I shed a tear when Obama was elected Dozer May 2014 #1

Nice observation. There is a lot going on, and much of it is wrong, but there is also a lot to Squinch May 2014 #2

Dozer

(27 posts)

1. I shed a tear when Obama was elected

Reply to pennylane100 (Original post)

Fri May 2, 2014, 04:03 PM

May 2014

and will so when our first female President is elected but lets also focus on who that person is on the inside. Obama sounded wonderful in the beginning but has been disappointing on a lot of issues.

Squinch

(50,977 posts)

2. Nice observation. There is a lot going on, and much of it is wrong, but there is also a lot to