Obama To Give Message of Hope

President Obama is expected to deliver a sorely needed message of hope to this Country in a short while.  After the President outlines the recent culture of placing short term gains ahead of long term prosperity, he will take the opportunity to pave a new beginning of responsibility.  He is expected to tell America that:

"Now is the time to act boldly and wisely – to not only revive this economy, but to build a new foundation for lasting prosperity. Now is the time to jump start job creation, re-start lending, and invest in areas like energy, health care, and education that will grow our economy, even as we make hard choices to bring our deficit down."   

We know President Obama will use all of his fabled oratory skills to convince America that it is time to start focusing on the long term, but his challenge (and our challenge) will be to convince 435 members of the House of Representatives and 100 Senators to break their culture of bickering, infighting, partisanship and pork barrel politics.  It is hard to imagine how the existing crew, with about 470 running for election every 2 years, would be willing to put the Nation's long term interests above the perceived need to get something accomplished in the short term at the expense of another party in order to get re-elected.  Let's hope Mr. Obama can deliver this type of change.