I also find your posthumous prediction of President Kennedy’s performance a roll of the dice. No President since has inspired a nation thus, and so to “rank him” between Ford and Bush I is evidence of why you probably shouldn’t visit Las Vegas soon (among other reasons). Who knows what this country might have been/seen if a John/Rober Kennedy confluence would have been realized.

But the bottom line of your post is that President Obama offers our natio a new hope and opportunity. Yes we should be watchful, but I for one love his view of success:

“Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon whic our success depends – hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism – these things are old. These things are true.”

This, and many more statements from the President, indicate to me that as Jews and as citizens of the enlightened world we must advance the values of our heritage and of our leader to bring these ideas to fruition