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The campaign is over, NOW the work bebins. This morning as I thought about the nation's and the world's victory, I thought and asked how will I work to ensure that the promise of a Barack Obama presidency does not lose its energy? Not that work is not already beeing done, but how as a community organizer do I include more people in the work?

This morning and afternoon people have called me with inspirational ideas on how they could help. This is a season to take a piece of the work and put your flavor to it.

1. What two or three big priorities should the country tackle, and how optimistic are you that we can make real progress. LEADERSHIP. I think that this country needs to define who we are and who we want to be in a cultural, moral, and historical way! We have willingly or unwillingly defined ourselves to the rest of the world by our vices. We have made money our god and have lost our way culturally. We tend to measure our happiness by our standard of living. But it seems as the standard goes up our happiness, (along with our health, our education, and our our morals) go down. A business, a family, a political unit is defined by its leaders. We need great leadership. McCain would be a caretaker, Obama offers a promise of the type of leadership that is needed. If that promise is false, it will do terrible damage. Congress is almost beyond hope. We need term limits badly. Probably 12 years for both senators and representatives. We need a viable third and fourth party. Just alternatives. Education needs to be evaluated from the top down. The school year needs to be changed away from its agrarian roots. The best teachers my children had were the poorest ones, (when they attended a parochial school). teaching needs to be a calling, not a unionized job! Teachers need to flow in and out of the system so that they can regenerate, learn about the outside world. Partnerships between business and education must be developed and both sides will gain. A child that begins school at 4 and continues until they are 60 (as a teacher) has little experience in the world. The education problem must be tackled at the state or local level, but with federal guidance. And what is wrong with liberal arts! That's the cultural education we need. I'm not sure it can happen! The economy! We need some pain! We need to understand that actions have consequences. We need to pay more for gasoline, or we will never reduce our consumption. We must see economics as producing things other than money. Stocks have never been tied to reality. They are legalized gambling. Wall Street must feel the pain. In middle America the banks are sound, they have money to lend. But they require people to work and save a down payment. Northing wrong with that. IT was good enough for our parents. And lets be honest, most forclosures didn't happen to people who lived within their means. Rather to people who took risks hoping to profit and were facilitated in those risk by others hoping to profit more. It The economy can be tackled, but it will take guts.....and leadership

2. What's the condition of politics and public life in your local community, what should be done in the next six months to make a positive difference? Local politics attract few of our best and brightest. Public life is a little better. There are a lot of people with good intentions trying to do good through community service organizations and the like. The higher you climb in politics, the more distasteful it becomes. Term limits!

3. How much hope do you feel today -- and why? We make our own goals and live our own lives! So hope for me is always present. When we read about our predecessors, the great civilizations, we realize that all these were transitory. They rise and they fall. We will rise and we will fall also as a nation! The key is that the journey is what is important, because the destination will always be receding into the future.

1. What two or three big priorities should the country tackle, and how optimistic are you that we can make real progress?

Education, K to college level. If the US does not do something we will continue to slip toward second-rate status in the world. It seems the first thing many states; counties and cities cut is education, usually the most valuable areas to growth and development (the arts, physical education, liberal arts, communication). I feel that we can make progress once our communities realize that protecting your pocketbook is less important than making sure there is a prosperous future and potential for our children and their children.

The credit crisis, as a part of the larger issue of a world wide rapid crash in business and employment. Without jobs and hope there can be no growth or return to a standard of living we have come to accept as normal. I am not optimistic about the pain we will go through, the loss of income, health and status we all face. I am optimistic that this too will pass, but at what price.

The war in Iraq. There is no easy answer, but we need to stop tossing money and lives into an endless pit.

2. What's the condition of politics and public life in your local community, what should be done in the next six months to make a positive difference?

The Nevada legislature meets in January. They need to stop looking at the world in terms of fiscal limitations and start realizing that the time to build and govern for the future is now. Restore education. Provide incentives to remain in our homes. Find ways to keep the brain trust and our children from rushing to leave the state because of a lack of educational and employment in our rapidly impacted service industry and construction based economy.

3. How much hope do you feel today -- and why?

On the surface very little. My own income is one quarter what it was in 2007. Search for work has proven fruitless. I do not qualify for unemployment as I still work and came off of ‘at will’ full and part time work in a Right-to-work state.

But under the surface I feel a great deal of hope. A great deal will depend on the presidential election and the new Congress, but I realize they have great challenges and limitations facing them. But people are basically good. We, as a society, will do what it takes (eventually) to right ourselves. It will be painful and discouraging along the way, but our spirit will eventually win out.