There's still hope

Just when everyone is proclaiming that America is losing its luster, that she is not what she used to be, that everything is looking glum, she goes and does something like this....and totally redeems herself! First she votes in Kristi Yamaguchi as the champion of Dancing with the Stars. Though she is not as popular as Jason Taylor, doesn't quite have the personality, or the charm, as the NFL superstar, America still sees that she is the better dancer. Americans followed their moral conscience to vote for the superior talent instead of just making it a popularity contest.

Next, American votes for David Cook to be the new American Idol instead of teenage heart throb David Archuleta. The latter David has the better voice, is more talented vocally, and has the eyes to melt any 14 year old girl in America, but America saw that he doesn't have "it". He can't handle the media. He laughs like a little girl when he is interviewed. He only sings one genre: love ballads. David Cook is mature, confident yet gracious, and even more importantly, creative. He will make his own, unique album like no one else in America. I will buy his CD. I wouldn't have bought Archuleta's. David Cook may not be easy on the eyes, but he still has "it". America comes through, again.

Lastly, I will sleep well tonight, after having witnessed an incredible thing tonight on TV. In the midst of trials and tribulations with natural disasters in China and Myanmar, as gas prices reach $4/gallon, and as distasteful words are constantly shared between presidential candidates, a glimmer of hope was found. For one small moment on television, the world was right. All the problems of the world faded away. Meredith Grey figured out her problems. She dealt with them and then she went to the man she loved. Derek and Meredith kissed!! When the writers of Grey's Anatomy could have left us hanging in this season finale like they have the previous 3 seasons, they didn't. They realized that America couldn't handle that right now. We needed something. We needed to be able to believe in love again. We needed to see that there is still good in the world. And they gave that to us.

Thank you, America, for restoring hope back into the world. There ain't no doubt I love this land. God bless the USA.