Anyone Can Be President

With the election of Barrack Obama, I truly believe that any natural born citizen can be President of the United States. I told my students every year, "that anything they could dream of was possible." I told them, "they could be President of the United States of America." I would say these word, and knew it was possible and coming, but honestly never thought I would live to see the day when it would actually come to pass. We have many disagreements in this country on health care, bailout programs, and keeping the budget in line, but there is no country on earth that I would rather be a citizen of more than the United States in this day and time. We must stop arguing and start finding solutions. Our children are watching us, and they are listening to our comments and opinions and will often adopt and repeat much that is said. Teach our children that they live in a democratic system that somehow finds a way to serve the people even though we always don't agree on how that should be done. Ensure them that with persistence, hard work, and a love for serving their country that they too can be President. Show them that reading is a passport to anywhere, and education is the liberator of all those oppressed.