Views of a World Without Weapons

Pessimist-
We are all doomed.
It is January, 2009 and Barack Obama is now the President of the United States. Personally, I didn’t care who was elected. Anyone who has to clean up the mess Bush left us is doomed to fail. We are loosing the war in Iraq, the dollar is weakening, and the world is dying a slow and torturous death because of our dependence on fossil fuels. I don’t know how we’ll make a come back. Every person in the world and every earthly force are against us. We need a miracle.
That’s where Barack comes in... So people say. His campaign slogan was ‘Change we can believe in’. He preaches hope, a new beginning, and peace. But are all those things really possible, or are people just full of false optimism? Could we live in a world without weapons? Can we have world peace? Barack likes to think so. The realist in me thinks that it is all a lost cause. We might as well just drive our hummers to the edge of the earth and play Russian roulette until the terrorists come home.

Optimist-
Never give up.
That’s what I always say. Even when Bush was lying to us left and right and there seemed to be no light at the end of the tunnel, I figured that once he was gone we would have a chance to start all over.
Today Barack Obama was sworn in as President of the United States.
I am a huge fan of Barack Obama. I am the person who registered as an independent, followed all the debates, and voted for the person I thought could bring change to this dwindling country. Today is the day I’ve been waiting for. I believe Barack is the man who will bring hope to this country. He is a humanitarian, in every sense of the word, and doesn’t laugh at the thought of world peace. I’d like to think that with him running the country, a ‘world without weapons’, is no longer a naive fantasy of mine. Today, anything is possible.