Pre-Inauguration Day Insanity

And we are heading into the final hours of Bush's reign of terror. I kid, I kid. Although the final hours part of that equation is entirely truthful. Being here in DC and seeing the insane mass of people has made things quite interesting - much less getting anywhere takes an extra few hours.

Call me cynical, but I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. Reading articles about people who have all this hope that Obama will be able to turn things around in a heartbeat... he just can't, hell, God himself couldn't. This country is in a hole that is not going to be dug out of particularly easily. There are wars left and right, an economic shithole, and domestic issues up the wazoo. This is not to say that Obama does not have his strong points, but the sheer amount of hope for immediate change seems unfounded. People are hailing his progressive nature, his grassroots connections, and I'm sitting here thinking the man and his team are a bunch of brilliant masterminds because absolutely nobody is capable of being that good to turn this country around in a hot minute. What his true strengths are, we have yet to find out. With so little experience and so little time to know who he is, we'll learn in the coming days what we've gotten ourselves into and whether or not this one man is as good in his actions as he is in his words.

I was going to go to the mall to hear his speech, but I won't be able to hear it in a crowd, so I'll explore, then be home for the actual speech because I want to hear what he has to say (and not a few hours later). After that, who knows what I'll explore. This day is epic, not just where he's at, but for this city as a whole.

I'm interested to see what he does, what decisions he makes first, where he will lead this country.

But at the end of the day, my inclinations are that this is only one man. Yes, he is "in charge" of the "super-power" of the world, but he is still only a man. He is not infalliable and he is not without his faults. We will see them in the days to come, I just hope that people give him enough of a chance to show his strengths... whatever they may actually be.