I don’t expect a magic bullet, but I am hoping that Obama (other than showing the world that the US presidency is no longer the exclusive realm of the antigay white male, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant stereotype) will steer our country on a new, better and hopeful path, pro-GLBT, one that at least partway “gets it” which McCain doesn’t.
one where straight and GLBT are more and more equal, one where terrorism is on the wane due to tough but compassionate leadership, one where world leaders will have more respect of the US, where we can help lift up the poorer countries, where our economy improves, alternative and cleaner energy is more important, public transportation is improved to get people out of their cars, where air and water pollution control and economic activity don’t have to be neceassarily at cross-purposes, where illiteracy is lessened, volunteering for charitable causes is more popular, where diseases like HIV/AIDS are properly and aggressively funded and fought and eventually in the future curable and preventable problems.

I am hoping that while Obama is not a panacea, at least his presidency is a new and hopeful beginning for this country. A land where anyone GLBT or straight, female or male with both smarts, experience and vision can one day be president. Hillary and Obama are both pioneers cracking the “glass ceiling” in our slow country for both non-white and women and shattering the stereotypical anti-GLBT white male, Anglo-Saxon Protestant mold of the US presidency, something that is long overdue.