Obama Win Renews Feeling of Camelot

If having your picture taken is any indication of how good of a president you are going to be then President-elect Obama is going to be a rock star! I realize shaking hands and kissing babies is what campaigns are all about, but this guy has been in front of more cameras than Britney Spears.

If you search Google images for “Barack Obama” you come up with get this, 17 million images! Compare that to just 2.2 million for President Bush. I even gave the current Prez help by including the search “President Bush”, which only garnered another 1.8 million images. There is no doubt the President-elect likes his picture taken and will have plenty of opportunity to be in front of the cameras during what I hope is two tours of duty as the Commander in chief.

But at some point the honeymoon will be over right? All the cameras and all the swooning will give way to getting down to the matter at hand; repairing this country and putting into action the plans of which half of this country disagreed.

But until the gloves come off enjoy the moment America, you have earned it. From hanging chads to the misery that is 9/11. From the war on terror to the wholesale abandonment of the American spirit and the nuclear holocaust that is the current U.S. economy, the United States needed this win and we needed a feel good story to raise us up by our bootstraps, to prove that with hard work, sweat, and determination anything is possible…literally anything!

There is a feeling that the Obama presidency has all the markings of being the Camelot of this century. This has to be how it must have felt during the Kennedy days. A young, vibrant, attractive couple taking their hard-fought place in the White House, the kids running through the halls of the West Wing, it all seems so surreal. It is a good feeling and I for one am going to enjoy it!