Everyone seems to be excited about something? Is it post-MLK day afterglow? Oh I get it, we’ve got a new guy in the White House and there’s something about his skin color that’s making people talk. 
Kidding aside, I can’t say I’ve ever felt racism in my day (keep in mind being a dork and being ostracized for that reason is a different story) so, as I told my wife, the excitement about today is more about having a well-spoken and (hopefully) intelligent president in office to represent us in the world as well as to help get this out of control country back on track. I understand and appreciate the importance of Barack Obama being sworn into office but color me a realist in the fact that I’m looking beyond the race factor. Though I admit there’s a certain karma at work when a black president is being sworn in a day after a holiday remembering one of the best representatives of the civil rights movement.
I have high hopes and look forward to the next 100 days as well as the next two years. Every president tries to accomplish something relatively big early in office and every president also happens to screw something notable up in the early days of their tenure as well. With my high hopes, I’m expecting the “something big” to be something other than bailing out industries that screwed themselves with their sloth and stupidity and the “something notable” to be that they picked the wrong color for the dinner ware.
Still, you have to admit, despite all the gloom and doom of the (it’s now official, right?) recession, President Obama is acting like a glimmer of light (yes, I see the irony) in a period of darkness. It may not be enough to save jobs (that comes with better business sense and better foresight) but hopefully the optimism will capture enough hearts to kick start the economy (the world economy).
Look on the plus side, he can actually speak and will likely not spit on every other country in this world when trying to get stuff done. We might actually be able to do stuff in the world and you might actually see the economy perk up just because of that alone.
So, here’s to the new president and his new government. Don’t screw it up and keep that security tight…don’t want the “moral” minority doing something rash that could end this ride too early.
kn