Moderately Optimistic Day

Celebrate 28 October 2004 as Moderately Optimistic Day.

On this day, people throughout the world, and especially in the United States, can read, reflect upon, and contribute to a list of imagined events which might easily be true after one year of a Kerry Administration.

This list should be comprised of plausible, positive achievement.
It begins as follows:

1.    There are fewer children living in poverty today than this day last year.

2.    We have reaffirmed our national dedication to basic human rights.

3.    We have improved our safety and reduced the number of enemies in the world.

4.    Fewer Iraqis have taken up arms against foreign soldiers and foreign soldiers have killed fewer Iraqis.

5.    Our efforts abroad are less likely to spiral into incomprehensible chaos while the risk of a widespread regional war fought by religious fundamentalists has diminished.

6.    Practices are in place which will lead to cleaner air and water.

7.    Research into alternative fuels is creating thousands of jobs.

8.    Elders of the community do not wait in lines around the block to get  vaccinations at clinics that do not have enough medicine.

The current administration has never set these modest goals, and certainly will not achieve them.

In the numbing atmosphere of these last days of the campaign, take a moment to look ahead, and add a Moderately Optimistic item to the list.