Good-bye Mr. Bush, hello Mr. Obama

Next Tuesday, Jan. 20th, Barack Obama will de sworn in as President of the United States. This will conclude the eight year Republican presidency of George W. Bush (who finishes with a very low 24% of approval), and begin a new era in world politics.

When Mrs. Rosa Parks decided to sit in a white-only seat in a bus, and thus begin we the end of racial seggreation in the US, she never imagined that just a few decades later, an African-American would be the most powerful man on the face of the Earth. When Obama was elected last November, this became a reality.

Evidently, Mr. Obama is faced with an enourmous task. It is well said: "with great power, comes great responsability." Much is expected from him, from his Ivy-League education, from his enormous charisma, from his party, from his superstar cabinet... It will take a great leader to lead the US out of a series of crises it has never experienced: fighting a war on two fronts (one of which is highlydisliked by an important part of the population), facing the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression, a growing power of drug lords just south of the border, and a long etcetera.

Will Mr. Obama keep his campaign promises? Will he choose the right economic/military/social/security decisions? We can only hope that he is up to the task. Hopefully he will not listen to the chant of the sirens who would wish him get into large deficits to bail-out the economy, hopefully he will take US troops out of Iraq cautiosly, hopefully he will declare war on the State threatening drug lords....hopefully we'll remember him as we remeber Lincoln, Kennedy, Jefferson, and the great leaders the US has had.