Will the real America please stand up!

The whole world WAS watching on election night last November when Barak Obama was elected President. No one believed it could ever happen. People of diverse races and cultures embraced each other in celebration. America at its best!?

The whole world IS watching when the TV news shows footage of people screaming at each other during town meetings about health care reform. Whether they are real grass roots people or pawns who have been goaded into disrupting civil discourse by those who oppose any reform -- it makes no difference. America at its worst!?

I wonder which picture the world will regard as the real America.