Reclaiming my resurgent optimism for my country.

[efhmc]

I wish to thank President Obama for refreshing and renewing at the UN today my overwhelming pride of country. The self-proclaimed "fellow Texan" (born in Connecticut and bred by the most extreme and ignorant and greedy people of this state) who was "elected president" before him did more to end democracy than any person/tyrant/disaster/ has ever done. Listening to our President's speech to the United Nations today actually gave me hope for the future of my country and the world.

[BlooInBloo]

1. We seem to be shuffling forward - which is a *vast* improvement on sprinting backward...

Still a lot to finish, which Obama has started, and as much or more to start, which Obama hasn't yet begun on.

[efhmc]

2. I have to tell you that as a person who was around when

there were whites only movie theaters and fountains, we have made great strides. It still amazes me at how slow and amazingly unaware most of the young people of our country are of the amount of prejudice and real hatred that exists toward anyone that is different and how much this is tolerated.

[BlooInBloo]

3. That too.

[efhmc]

4. i am forever thankful that I had a mother who taught me 50

years ago in a small town East Texas that all people had value and that no one should be treated less because of the color of his/her skin. Most can never know what a difference that made in the society I grew up in.

[efhmc]

5. Replying to my own post because I did not want it to be about

race. I wanted it to be about my renewed hope for my country, THANK YOU PRESIDENT OBAMA for making my country great again!!!