hope/despair

Politics is a love/hate subject for me. While I am sometimes filled with great hope for the future as mankind seemingly becomes more enlightened as time progresses, I am just as often filled with dread and a sense of hopelessness regarding the things that I see happening in the world around me. It's enough to make a young college student bipolar.

Anyway, here's this, something I saw today that gave me a sense of optimism.

And here's this, something saw today that makes me shiver at the thought of where we are and where we are going.


Two notes on the above:
Yes, I'm most likely voting for Obama (though Hillary will do if Obama doesn't make it)
Keith Olbermann is an American hero.