So close...

[Gloria The Camel]

Being so close to Obama taking over the reigns to the world, I'm curious;

Who believes that time will make him just another, annoying politician, and how fast do you think this will take to happen

Or;

Do people honestly believe he will be a positive change and stay true to his words, a new direction for the United States?

[anthrobabe]

Very interesting thoughts here.

I am very excited about President Obama-however I am aware that he is in fact a politician and well they are simply a different creature all together-some way worse than others.

My hope is that he will stand up for what he says and what he says he believes in and that the love affair and what he does that is good will last for more than a year.
It's not going to be easy- the USA is in a pickle- a big ol stinky pickle and now it's got to be cleaned up and it won't happen overnight.

fingers and toes crossed.

[Swatopluk]

He will soon have to prove that he can bite also. With reason alone he will be lost in DC. I could name some foreign dictators that are more reasonable than the GOP leadership (not to speak of parts of their base).

[Opsa]

The thing that bugs me is that even though I think he's amazing and means well, he will have the burden of all these "seasoned" (as in jaded) politicians in D.C. cramping his style every working minute of the day. I don't know who on earth could hold up very long against them.

I am very encouraged that he and Michelle were not brought up rich. I hope they do not lose sight of the fact that  most of us in this country are not rich, either. I don't know why they stick these people in The White House. No matter how humble a person is, it must be hard to be surrounded by luxury and still remember that most of us are not and need to be represented as such.

[Griffin NoName]

I don't know why they stick these people in The White House. 

Because it's well guarded, or because it is an an obvious target?

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Someone once quipped:  "anyone who wants to be President should have his head examined.  If found sane, immediately disqualified for office."

It was Robert Heinlein, I think.

I always liked it...I also liked how he did not cover what to do "if found insane".... 

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Well, there is always the chance (with several zeros in front) of someone with the desire to do the right thing to reach power. It's like winning the lottery, eventually someone decent will get there, the problem is that the odds are so astronomically small that the cynics among us will not recognize it until after the fact.

Talking about Obama specifically, the guy is certainly smart and pragmatic with the potential to be a great president but only after a few years we will know if he is part of that 0.0000000000001% of decent politicians or part of the remaining 99.9999999999999%...

[Griffin NoName]

Whatever, I was crying just now watching the MLK Day celebrations. On the BBC News they showed Terrence Roberts who was one of the 9 children excluded from the previously segregated school in Little Rock in 1957. The footage they showed brought back that world, that time, to me so strongly.

I fear I may spend much of tomorrow crying. That sort of weeping where pain is totally mixed up with extreme happiness.

[stellinacadente]

I am hopeful for the first option...

the thing I am more worried about is to get the chance to actually find out... I hope no insane klu-klux-klan aficionado or nazi would make any crazy move there...

His acceptance speech gave me the chills...if he is true to his word, and DC politicians give him a little help (by any miracle)... we might actually see the real potential of America

[anthrobabe]

Whatever, I was crying just now watching the MLK Day celebrations. On the BBC News they showed Terrence Roberts who was one of the 9 children excluded from the previously segregated school in Little Rock in 1957. The footage they showed brought back that world, that time, to me so strongly.

I fear I may spend much of tomorrow crying. That sort of weeping where pain is totally mixed up with extreme happiness.

me too

I went to college with Spirit Trickey-- MinnieJean Brown-Trickeys daughter-- meeting some of these people during the 50th anniversary was simply amazing, It was almost surreal I kept just looking at their faces and thinking-- this is history, these people, they were children (ok teens but still babes) and they were thrust upon and into the world spotlight during a very vulenrable time for them, I am at my friends home and I am having tea with "the little rock 9"--
I have a poster of Elizabeth Eckford in my bedroom- you remember she was the one that was somehow left to arrive at Central by herself (i think she had to ride the bus-anyway for a few moments in time she was the Little Rock 1) and make that long, lonely, terrifying walk up the sidewalk by herself! She was 15 years old, it's the one where she is holding her books and being screamed at so violently by Hazel Bryan-Massery; she was turned away and yet she went back
(link here)
underneath is a caption-one word
Courage
in my humble opinion it is an understatement