The charter bus rides along the narrow, twisting road just a few feet away from the steep drop of a rocky Cliffside that lingers over the sparkling Mediterranean Sea. Around the bend hundreds of distant homes chisel into the cliff-side like children’s building blocks, stacked one on top of another.

In the heat of the recent United States presidential elections, most Americans found themselves holding their breath in anticipation as they waited to discover who would be next in line to serve our country. Obama or McCain? I’ve been asked this question repeatedly throughout the past two months and more specifically in the days leading up to the election.