How many people have had a career in pointing out the horrible and criminal things that Bush has done, futilely putting his atrocities on display before a indolent and laconic nation and an indignant and outraged world? A word of prayer for those very necessary institutions in print, and on the Internet, who are hovering in limbo, wondering if there will be any more horrible actions by the American Government to rant and rail against.

Fortunately for them, despite the hope and joy Obama's victory has brought the world, he is still just human, and a politician to boot. He has an almost divine aura granted to him by the media, so unfortunately, he's destined to disappoint, whether due to the foibles of human nature, or the rabid resistance of the right-wing nutbars still in government.

He's hoping he can do the best with the situation facing him, and that people remember that he's not a magician. He's just someone who listens (how long his it been since the US had a leader who does

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Matt Bors