I WANT TO BE PROUD OF MY COUNTRY AGAIN!

I want to wake up on November 5 and feel like a new era is beginning - a time of healing, a time of regaining our standing in the global community, a time of holding our heads up when we say we're Americans. I want to look forward to policies that benefit the most those who have the least. I want to leave behind the politics of greed, cronyism, stubbornness and ignorance. I want leadership more interested in REAL health care reform than in lining their own pockets. I want to feel like my president is smarter than me! I want to start out my career in science in a country that values knowledge. I want to prove that honor trumps racism. I want to hear the words "the president signed a bill into law" and not feel a sense of foreboding. I want to hope that - if my brand-new husband and I have kids - that we can leave them a better country (and world) than the one we came into.

This is a must-win, guys. I know I'm preaching to the choir, but... just had to get that off my chest.