Hope can fall

A sigh of relief covers the world, but political hope always ends in tears. The key point is Obama is not McCain, and Biden can actually think. Another matter is that he is 'black'. But what does Obama stand for? Change. I'm still not sure, what does change mean?

Obama is in all words a clever orator and a brilliant populist. His beliefs on other matters remain vague. What we know of him is relative to the extremes of McCain and Palin, not actual matter. While we know that Obama is generall going to place more regulations on the banking industry, we remain uncertain as to what that actually means. He has not set out a plan, or clearly stated his plans. As such, we are uncertain. Yet, all this remains insignificant in America. Obama is hope, his youth, inspiration (and the fact that he is black) are drawing factors. He shows care, consideration and love, mitigating any possible necessity to establish political grounds.

Obama is Charisma; the way he has managed to bring Republican supporters to his side is interesting and even frightening. With so many people trusting him to bring them out of the grey shadow of recession and dodgy foreign policy, what will happen should he fail?

Could this be Blair and 1997 all over again? Or Whitlam? I hope the latter, but that's the problem with being a leftie.