Barack Obama a goal scored for the world

At last, and perhaps as usual, America has decided to, I hope, lead the world back into something they started when they voted J F Kennedy into the White House. They have elected a young, healthy and good looking President to take over the worn reigns of outdated presidential ware that seems to have been hanging on the special offer shelves for the past four decades and as we all know, not every bargain is a bargain.
Why does the world keep giving power to worn out and often not very healthy elderly men when there are so many fresh faces waiting in the sidelines to step forward and bring changes? The older we get the shorter our aspect of the future is so if we elect someone in their late sixties or early seventies then their future outlook is probably ten, twenty, maybe even thirty years ahead in their allotted time span of life.
In most countries the presidential seat is only for short periods, four to five years and perhaps a second term if one is lucky. The world needs the Barack Obama's to be stepping forward in the cyberspace age and looking ahead not till their own lives have ended but to the future centuries of human endeavours.
History and science have shown us that what was good for our forefathers is not necessarily good for us now. Old folk tend to look back at the past and dwell on it, where as the younger ones are living in the times and look towards the future as they strive to make their marks on the world.
May other countries follow this, I hope, trend and may we see a lot of elected leaders stepping forward into their places with keyboards at the ready instead of sandwiches in their briefcases.