Yes.

As someone who works in the developing world, and has experienced the constraints of Bush's policies on the very ability to carry out my work, today I am hopeful. About so very much.

Definitely not tomorrow, maybe not next year, but someday...

I am hopeful that I will be able to use government money to provide condoms to women in Africa.

Or to create prevention programs for sex workers in Brazil.

Or to educate young girls in our own backyard that if abstinence is not an option, safe sex IS.