Some people look forward to Christmas.
Some people look forward to the first day of school.
Although, the odds are pretty good the larger percentage of those people are parents, not pupils.
Me?
Birthdays are appreciated but pretty much a matter of yearly routine after more than sixty of em'.
Christmas is a joyous time though I could do with it starting, say, in November as opposed to the Labor Day side of the Halloween season.
No, I'm excited about a date still a few years away, but filling me with anticipation and expectation.
January 20, 2017.
On that day, assuming that nothing extraordinary happens in the meantime, Barack Obama will no longer be President of the United States.
And it doesn't require a post graduate degree to realize that there are millions of people who are right there with me, emotionally, if not literally, salivating over the thought that the Obama presidency will be over.
Most of those millions will be Republicans, I imagine.
Again, no doctorate required to draw that conclusion.
But regardless of party affiliation and/or where's one's particular loyalties lie, I think its a pretty safe bet that a cheer of unprecedented magnitude will be heard as the "so, help me, God" big finish of the Presidential oath is uttered by the next chosen leader of the free world.
I'll be right there, in spirit if not in person, raising my voice to a moment that will mark a turning point in history unparalleled in, if not recorded time, then certainly in my own lifetime.
The inauguration of the 2016 nominee of the Republican Party for President of the United States.
And an end to the venom and vitriol and viciousness that the previous eight years have seen splashed on our lives; the final moment of the hatred and anger directed at Barack Obama that has filled our senses, from print media to televised news shows, from talk radio to podcasts, from editorials to blog sites, from water cooler conversation to post after post after post after post on Facebook and Twitter and all social media sites that were created to bring people closer but have only had us at each others throats.
And, even more exciting, dare I say life changing?
The end to our long, long journey out of the wilderness and our arrival, finally, gratefully, in paradise.
A society without hatred or anger or prejudice.
A culture without greed or avarice or immorality.
A thriving economy, cities rising up, like Phoenixes from the ashes, with clean, well lit, paved streets, highways without pothole, neighborhoods without drugs or prostitution or crime, where a man or a woman or a child can walk freely and safely at any time of day or night.
An educational system second to none, schools rising like palaces on every other corner, filling our children's heads with knowledge and wisdom and ambition, affording them every resource and opportunity to live an unprecedented life of accomplishment and success and happiness.
A health care system that provides, at no cost, complete, unconditional protection for every man, woman and child from the ravages of disease or injury.
A fully funded support system for the elderly so that they may live out the remainder of their years free of the burdens of financial need.
A military trained and maintained at all times, with the power to take care of any injustice that the world might impose and fully appreciated and respected, not only from sea to shining sea, but in every country across every ocean around the globe.
Churches filled to the rafters, locally owned and operated neighborhood stores with customers lined up down the block, television, radio and music programs and programming free of decadence and despair, solar powered, sparkling clean mass transit, smog free skies, an end to heart disease and cancer and, once and for all, the final mention of the term global warming.
The realization of mankind's fullest potential.
And an end to the venom and vitriol and viciousness that the previous eight years have seen splashed on our lives; the final moment of the hatred and anger directed at Barack Obama that has filled our senses, from print media to televised news shows, from talk radio to podcasts, from editorials to blog sites, from water cooler conversation to post after post after post after post on Facebook and Twitter and all social media sites that were created to bring people closer but have only had us at each others throats.
It all starts January 20, 2017.
With the inauguration of the next Republican Party nominee as President of the United States.
I can't wait.
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