A New Day Dawns In America (My Take On The New President)

Like it or not, today is the dawn of a new era in American politics and I couldn’t resist commenting: Fractal Dawn seemed like a fine image to choose for today’s post.
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Today, for good or ill, (depending on your take on the political scene) Barak Obama becomes the 44th President of the United States and a new era dawns in Washington DC and the nation--wel maybe... Liberals see it as the dawn of hope and change. Conservatives see it as the day of disaster when a super left-leaning liberal is going to retreat from war and spend the nation into complete ruin. Me, I see it as a hopeful disaster. Obama comes into office with more hope and expectation than has been seen since John F. Kennedy was inaugurated back in 1960--and with even more hype. But things are much different today then back then: our economy is in the toilet, our country is involved in two (in my opinion) unwinnable wars and our people are divided more even than during the days of the Viet Nam War.
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The “Yes We Can” sloganeers who follow Obama (for now at least) disturbs me just a bit. They have A LOT of expectations for our next President and Barak Obama is only one man--and a politician at that. He has the unenviable task of pushing a HUGE allegorical rock up a high and steep metaphorical hill--more or less on his own. The nation has come to demand instant gratification, a quick and easy fix that solves everything painless RIGHT NOW. When we don’t get it we’re not happy and a lot of Obama’s supporters are going to fall away when he doesn’t magically fix all the problems he inherited. Repairing the damage (if that is even possible) is going to be a long, difficult process for everyone.
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The anti-Obama conservatives frankly disturb AND annoy me. They want to blame the media for Obama’s election and brand his supporters as hopeless trendoids jumping on the hype bandwagon while completely failing to recognize the fact that their candidate (John McCain in case you've forgotten) seemed completely out of touch and selected a running mate that scared the crap out of political independents and reasonable people throughout the United States. They are STILL complaining about his lack of experience and preparedness (as if anyone could REALLY be prepared to take the office.) They refuse to acknowledge in any way the mess George W. Bush left and McCain’s desire to continue going down the same road to nowhere. That’s not cool.
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As for me, I HOPE Barak Obama will do wonderful things for our country but in all honesty I doubt he'll live up to the hype. First and foremost he is a politician--and y’all know how I feel about that weasel-y lot. (If you don’t you should now.) I HOPE he makes good on his promises but in all reality I really doubt that things are going to change much because that’s just the way politics work here. But, at least things will be DIFFERENT…
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Think about it.