Asking Obama not to fuck it up would be like asking all the king's horsmen to put Humpty Dumpty back together again. How much worse could he make it? If we ellected a pet rock we'd still be better off.

It is not a slight on Obama by any stretch but more of a blasting of the authoritarian attitude that Bush had and his selish idealism in his colonialistic attitude which the founders faught against.

I think Obama wont solve all our problems, even in 2 terms, but at a minimum, we will have someone without rose colored goggles on that put our nation where Bush put it.

I agree with Brian. Almost anybody could do better than Bush. Obama may not be the best choice for president but he sure is the best choice out of people who ran for president. I hope he doesn't let us down.

Agreed. Perhaps the more pertinent question is will America forgive him if he can't make it all better inside one term? Is the expectation of many that the next time they go to the polls to pick a President they'll be living in a secure, stable and equable country?

I know it's waaay early to be predicting the issues affecting an election in 4 years time, but the biggest campaign promise he has to make good on (imo) if he wants to stay in is healthcare reform. 

What part of 'it's it up all Americans' Fox didn't get is rather beyond me.

Yeah, that's fair. Bush gets eight years to fuck it up, and Obama only gets four years to clean it up? Please. It takes my kids 15 minutes to trash my house, and it takes me at least an hour to clean it up.

At least we now have someone in the White House who can put more than two words together without making a grammatical error.

I'm not sure Bush could put one word together without making a grammatical error.

 Village Idiot returns home.

I'm not sure what this says about Texas cities.

See here.

It's true, Hamby.  Read the transcript to his inaugural speech.  (I had to, as I don't watch tele and the net was so flooded video wouldn't stream well from any site I tried).  It is full of meaningful sentences.  I mean, sentences that have meaning, that convery actual information.  It was frankly bewidering.

(I feel sorry for anyone who would parse all of Bush's speeches.  It would be an interesting endeavour anyhow.)

May explain a lot. I can be very verbose when drunk and not actually say a damned thing

Well, to be fair, Obama does use some touchy-feely rhetoric, but the point you're making still stands. There is MORE in there. There is information.

I was getting really pissed whenever I got the chance to flick on CNN and listen to the talking heads go back and forth. There was this one commentator... I'd have to look up his name.... but he kept saying throughout the day that he didn't think Obama's speech was very good at all, that it wasn't memorable because it didn't have any catchy lines, and so everyone was probably going to just forget about it.

I mean, really? Is this the level the guy is on? First black president (half-black, whatever, STFU). Inspiring character. Record turn-outs. New president AND an ideological shift in a time of issues both huge and various. But no, we're just going to forget the whole thing because Obama didn't dazzle this cockmaster with a presidential nursery rhyme? Can't we just be excited that he is TELLING US THINGS and seemingly making every attempt to be completely honest, straightforward, and transparent? No? We're going to cry because we were expecting a poetry recital?

I swear I heard him say the same thing verbatim at least three different times throughout the day, and every time it made me want to exact some kind of non-violent but dramatic revenge upon his retardation, like paying a hobo to poop in his cheerios or something.

I've resorted to telling myself that CNN was paying him to be the day's Mr. Grumpy, which required him to find something, ANYTHING, to suggest a difference of opinion; and secretly he really liked the speech, but he needed a paycheck and this was the best he could do.

Also, I'm sure worse has been said, but I'm not sure I want to know. I might get bruises from all the facepalming.

What makes me as giddy as kid on Christmas, is having formerly lived in the belly of the theocratic beast in Lynchburg Va, Falwell's monocromatic town, is that his family, and in retrospect I wish he was still alive so that he could hear the words "PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA"

I just bet Pat Roberson and their ilk are crapping their pants that someone other than a bible thumper has the top office.

Falwell was in the news locally all the time running around playing morality police threating the city and the country with Jesus. The funny thing is that outside his church and his college, even believers hated his pulpit politics.

I am so glad to see the wheels of his moral majority movement finally fell flat on its face and crashed and burned.

And now his followers have to call a black man, and a man with a Muslim name, PRESIDENT. I LOVE MY COUNTRY!