I think it’s still very fair and reasonable to say that Obama is no extremist and his very recent proximity to poverty stricken communities and day to day mores cannot be ignored. He is much more in touch with the problems of today than John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Hillary Clinton, or John Edwards ever were. For better or worse Barack Obama is the people’s president, and I don’t see any reason so far why he won’t reflect that.

President-Elect Obama is starting to form a cabinet (for whatever their partisan past might be) of incredibly capable pragmatists that are looking at the world at what can actually be done versus any idealism about what should be right in the world.

I also think that most American’s in the political center think that caring for our military, putting the right effort into Afghanistan, and talking to the right people to ensure the screeching complaints of the fringe are marginalized is where everyone is in a way that was defined by his very clear victory. A clear victory by the way that Bush never had, and Clinton did. George W. Bush governed by a 51% philosophy. Obama never campaigned that way. An important point to note.

And in regards to the black ghettos. Don’t forget that Obama had to be the Sidney Fucking Poitier of politicians, and the way you get elected (as proven) is to passionately avoid the idea of an angry black politician. While Jessie Jackson was pretty sweet, and my folks voted for him in the primaries, he really did run as a black man for the black community…and while that’s 100% okay, it’s a little bit of the Ralph Nader 99% idealism and less than 1% of the popular vote in electability.

Sure, Obama could be the biggest swindle in American history, but that means he kept the secret for 2 years during the most brutal election cycle in American history. I think what is more plausible is that racism is still deep in this country and if you can frame the issue of ghettoized areas of the country in a manner that applies to everyone (no jobs, take care of your kids, stable families, better housing, reduced drug influence, better police, etc…) you not only touch on the issue, you also are inclusive of everyone to a commonality.

Okay, maybe Obama will fuck over poor black people and he just abused them to get into the White House while pretending to be liberal but he’s just another Republican in disguise…but I doubt it. Instead I think he ran the exact race that was required to put the first minority in the Oval Office, and he will indeed address the vital foreign and domestic issues of this nation.

Also, don’t forget…he may fail, and he may get it wrong, but I think he will have the courage to at least try, and that alone is far more than we ever got from George W. Bush.