Obligatory Inaugural Patriotic Post

Well, I suppose I should gush and talk about all the change that's going to be happening and how happy I am. But that's not really true. Don't get me wrong, I love Obama. And the coming of Camelot the second is a wondrous thing. But some part of me feels sorry for the man. Our country is in for a rough ride, because for the past eight years our failures and problems were shoved out of sight rather than dealt with. Bodies were literally hidden. Entitlement and luxury were hoisted up like golden calves to divert us with more and more people, companies, and financial institutions shaping those calves out of borrowed gold.
Now the financial sector has begun its correction, most people are finally realizing there are some fundamental problems with our country. Fortunately, we have elected a man mature enough to be separate patriotism from pragmatism, who can point out America's faults without loving her less. But we seem to be looking to our new president as some sort of messiah to lift us out of this mess. Sorry. Like everyone else, Obama is just a man and no amount of superstition or wishful thinking will change that. He's a very smart man, a realist and the best of all possible leaders to have at such a crisis in our history. But he's still a man. So if you want him to dig us out of the hole this country is in, put down your Obama swag and grab a shovel, because he won't be able to do it alone.