With the election over and Obama officially elected as our “king” to be, everyone is waiting impatiently to see if he is really going to live up to those vague election season promises of “hope” and “change”. While his supporters see the possibility that he may really be in it to change America, I have a much more pessimistic streak in me which makes me wonder if he isn’t just like 99% of the other people that have ever run for president. In other words, isn’t he just a power hungry egomaniac like the rest of them?

Time will tell, but one of the most important issues facing America at this moment is what to do with the Gitmo prisoners, and how Obama handles that situation will tell us a lot about whether or not he really possesses the strength of character that he’d like us to believe he has. I believe that most of the prisoners in Gitmo are probably innocent. If they were truly guilty of terrorism, war crimes or other unspeakable acts, they’d have already been dealt with and the guilty verdicts would have been shoved down our throats as proof of our progress in the war on terror. But those people have largely been left to rot without a trial and without attorneys, all the while enduring torture and isolation. This January we’ll see if Obama really wants to change America.