I have a announcement to make! Contrary to popular belief, The Lady in the Lake did not rise, cross the Atlantic, and deliver the Sword Excaliburunto President Obama.  The Oval office did not receive a round table, and the new administration did not don titles of Lord and Lady, and suddenly develop Posh English Accents.

I’m not trying to put a damper on the parties that, as of this writing, are still going on (I heard the new president will be done “for the day” somewhere around 3am for that matter). Yes, I did vote for the other guy. Yes, I would have preferred that my chosen political party would be the ones that bought us out of financial difficulty.  However, my desire of the success of our nation transcends all of that.  So why then would I mock the visions of a new Camelot with this new President? Simple, because, even if he turns out to be a great leader, he’s still human.  President Obama is not the cure for cancer.  To listen to some of his supporters, he will solve ALL our problems.  I should bold that and underline it (well not underline, I hate seeing anything underlined that isn’t a link or a researchcitation) because I swear, some truly believe that it’s every problem.  Just because he took office the Dow should rise (it didn’t) all nations should love us, and be at peace with each other, any form of disease will be cured, all the hungry will have food, no one will be cold, our cars will suddenly have electric motors in them running at 100% (or More) efficiency.  The list goes on and on.  People! He’s only human, and “only” the president.  He still has to contend with the political Machine, which though favorable towards him, still has a state by state agenda.  Nations across the planet look at him, as they should, as a American.  Some nations like our ways, and some don’t.  Who is in office really doesnt’ matter to them as it’s our fundamental ways, that which makes this The United States, is what they like or dislike.  Oh and all the markets went downward today. 

So, if I’m not trying to be a downer, what am I trying to say? Simply put, lets not build up the expectations regarding this presidency well beyond the capabilities of the Office of the President.  Success (hopefully) or fail, we should be judging him on a more human level.  But where would that human level be.  Personaly here are some of the things that I would like to see, things that may still be on the monumental side but don’t defy the laws of physics.

• How about repairing the division that leaders on both sides of the aisle have developed.  Ever notice are sharply people are on politics.  One side or the other, with the middle ground slowly eroding away.  Note I said repair, I think we have some pretty deep seated hostilities here so it might take a while.
• I want my pay check to be more then 3-5% better  each year.  Obviously he can’t order me up a raise, but if each dollarcan get more for my family than what it could in previous years, then that’s the same thing as a raise.  Bonus points if he can do it with out raising taxes, especially unequally.
• I don’t care if other nations like/dislike us.  As long as they have some respect for us, in the sense of don’t make treaties that they intend to break in 2 week (if not less).  I think the one thing that ticked me off about Iraq is all the French and German equipment that we found that the Iraqi’s weren’t suppose to have due to embargoes and such. Thanks guys! Way to be Allies!

Could I come up with more, Sure, but lets just start here. I think that thoese 3 items are big enough to take 4 years to accomplish.   This, granted in my opinion, is in-linewith the sort of things President Obamas’ campaign was talking about.  It’s more down to earh and not the fairy tails that some minds have invented.  If he can come up with even 2 of those, then I’d have to say, rhetoric aside, that he’s doing a pretty good job. 

As I said before, I didn’t vote for him.  But the line of Democrat or Republican is gone now, and won’t matter for 4 more years.  He is my President, our President, the President of the United States of America, and as such, I pray for the best for him, and for our Nation thoughout his term in office.