Entry #2, Roger Cohen "Perfecting the Union"

In the essay "Perfecting the Union" Roger Cohen states that "US election won by Barack Obama: the self-respect of the American people." President Obama inspired the author and I agree with everything he said: "Obama's idea, put simply, was that America can be better than it has been. It can reach beyond post -9/11 anger and fear to embody once more what the world still craves from the American idea: hope." I admire and very impressed with his obvious intellect. He is a natural born leader possessing the qualities necessary to be an effective president.
Roger Cohen emphasizes that "America can mean what it says...words count. That has been a lesson of the Bush years." Words meant what he wanted them to mean and not less. So the nation has been governed with words that raised fear, increased insecurity and added distrust of Americans.
The author believes that "Obama will reinvest words with meaning" and bring the divided America together with a belief that the future is brighter. "Obama has spoken that after years of the debasement of so many core American ideas, a case for what the preamble to the U.S. Constitution calls "a more perfect union" would resonate." I think this is a relief more than a celebration to have a President in power coming from a belief that Government is indeed of the people, by the people and for the people.
Some skeptics objected that Cohen's article was mere cheer-leading, naive, that the change he promised would be difficult to achieve. I would disagree the skeptics' position , it seems Obama isn't really changing direction at all. He is merely putting America back on track and restoring the dreams and aspirations of our nation.
I'm fully supporting Cohen's email comment: "Rosa Parks sat in 1955. Martin Luther King walked in 1963. Barack Obama ran in 2008. That our children might fly." In my opinion this is a beautiful dream but without dreams there never be a reality and this is also my optimistic vision.