Originally Posted by uno

Agreed. It's almost a perfect storm of circumstances that have led to this much excitement.

An outgoing president with one of the lowest approval ratings ever to leave office.

An incredibly intelligent, charismatic, level headed guy who happens to be black, happens to be from the same state as Lincoln, happens to be 40 year anniversary of MLK, happens to be about 200 years to Lincoln(whom he'd like to emulate), happens to give millions upon millions of people hope who won big in a huge election is coming into office.

The country is hurting in a big way both at home and abroad. People around the world are sick of what our government has been doing in our name. People at home are sick of what our government has been doing in OUR name. The economy is shit and is only going to get worse for a while.

How can anyone blame people for being excited about Obama? He hasn't promised any miracles. He hasn't said anything is going to be easy. Time and time again he's said that it is going to take work and sacrifice and people need to take some personal responsibility. He's said things may get started during his first and/or second term but that might not even be enough time to undo all the crap we've gotten into in a Kennedy like mold.