17 Predictions for 2017. On January 17, 2017.....

Sunrise Over The White House

I predict that on January 17, 2017....
1. A Democrat will be inaugurated the 45th President of The United States (the first Woman president? Caroline Kennedy?).
2. Barack Obama will leave office with the highest approval ratings of any president in American history.
3. All American's will have health insurance. All American's will be free to choose their health care insurer and we will all have more health care choices than we do today.
4. By all measures the health and health care of all American's will rank higher against other countries of the world than it does today.
5. Republican's will still be two decades away from attaining a majority in any branch of our government.
6. Marriage will be freely available to all American's.
7. Abortion will still be legal in all 50 states.
8. Conservatism will remain a totally repudiated governing philosophy.
9. Roland Burris will not be remembered except in that cemetery in Illinois.
10. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger will still be well known as an American hero. Only George W. Bush will have forgotten him.
11. We will have forgotten George W. Bush
12. Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity will be completely gone from American media.
13. The United States will once again have a budget surplus and Social Security and Medicare will both be solvent and thriving.
14. American universities will be awarding more science and technology degrees than law and business - to Americans.
15. America will be independent of foreign oil with at least 25% of our energy needs coming from "alternative" energy sources.
16. Several Bush administration officials will not be able to go to most countries without facing the threat of arrest for war crimes.
17. America will have regained its moral authority and will be once again admired around the globe as a great nation.
17A. My grandchild will be 7 1/2 years old and will be living in a secure and peaceful world.