Maple Trees and The Presidency

Hey everybody. I had some guys from a tree farm come out today and plant a red maple tree for me. It doesn't look like the one at the left just yet but over time it will. The tree I purchased was 4 years old and over 10 feet tall and has lost a few of its leaves. Down south here I am told that fall is the BEST time to plant new trees since the planting shock will be minimized. As I sat and watched the nurseryman plant the tree I wondered to myself what It will look like in twenty years. I may or may not still be alive...time will tell. But, the maple will growing steadfastly no matter what.
Then I wondered, "I wonder what type of President this tree will view as we usher in a new America"? Will the President be inexperienced, arrogant and do us more harm than good because he feels so self assured? Will he and his spouse FINALLY be proud to be called Americans? My maple tree is proud to be called a maple and it is going to use all of its solar power resources and water to grow to be strong and majestic and steadfast. Or, will the opposite be true and will my little maple tree have a grove of strong, experienced older trees that it can take example from and not have to worry about someone in the world trying to hurt it as it grows. The older trees know what strong and violent storms can do to a younger tree because they have survived those storms themselves. The little maple in my front yard needs to take a new direction from its past couple of years with its root bundled in a sack. It needs change and today it finally got the chance to have its environment change for the better where it can florish and grow and have its young life go in a brand new direction.
My little tree knows that times of change for the better aren't going to be easy. You see, it was planted in a state where a draught situation has been prevalent for 5 years or more. It has to have someone to care for it while it battles the hard time in order to achieve better times ahead. It is ready to do so. It also knows that pretty, eloquent, decorative YOUNG trees may seem so on the outside but are they not just as likely to get sick, lose their pomposity and show what they really are on the inside? Inside they are just a tree....just like my little maple. My little maple tree thinks that if you are going to say your that your bark and leaves are more elegant and therefore have a better chance to survive the next four years of change because of your profound knowledge of nature one would have to ask the tree "what types of storms have you experienced and survived, oh beautiful tree that give you such a clear insight of all that goes on around you?" What....none, you say? I for one would worry about ANY entity who might say such foolhardy things. As a little maple tree, I DO KNOW that the Declaration of Independence was hidden in an OLD Maple Tree in Connecticut. I hear the tree wasn't too pretty but it surely knew how to do the job. You see, because of aging and some battles with squirrels in the past there was a hollowed out area where the document could be hidden from the enemy.
In closing, let's really closely examine our two conversely different type of trees and ask ourselves, " I wonder which one will survive the next 4 years in such harsh times and in its new surroundings and secondly, which tree will offer protection from storms and tempests, but give cooling shade when we need to be relieved from the hot rays of the world's sun? As for the author, I am going to depend on an older, more mature tree with a few scars in its bark that ensured our Independence over 200 years ago. There is something to be said for a tough ol' tree.