The Audacity of Hope

I'm feelin' this election season. Very often, people ask for a candidate's plan. How on earth will you accomplish what you advocate for? It's a loaded question which should not be answered. Have you ever noticed how today's presidential elections mirror the presidential elections of our high school A.S.B. candidates?
Instead of saying, "I will improve school morale," and leaving it at that, the A.S.B. candidate adds, "by allowing students to have cell phones in the hallways." She can't deliver the promise, but she knows it will gain the attention of the students.
Listen, I'm okay with a Obama preaching hope and theory. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace. " Obama, or any candidate, could lay out a plan and promise to deliver, but I would rather see my President put his or her heart into the office and do his or her best--even if the outcome isn't what was hoped for.
It is this audacity of hope that I have bought into. The hope that Obama will work for true reform. The hope that Obama will deliver unity to this divided country. The hope that this nation will be healed. The hope that our students will achieve.