Obama-Nation!

The whole world is in love with Barack Obama and rightfully so. As a Canadian I'm fully jealous of all of the pomp and circumstance you Yanks pay to your leaders. I couldn't imagine have a ball for Stephen Harper when he was elected, let alone a parade! Celine Dion didn't sing for him. I don't even know if he made a speech afterward. That's the definition of Canadian Apathy isn't it?

I was excited, proud and hopeful yesterday watching the inaugeration. I took pictures of my television set for pete's sake! I'll remember where I was when Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States. But he's not just the American president is he? He's more like the leader of the entire world! It's just such a huge departure from the last administration. Obama has set himself far apart from what America has come to stand for in the past 8 years.

That's what I'm afraid of. I'm afraid Obama has painted himself into a corner that he can't step out of. That all of the high ideals he spoke of are not possible to create anytime soon. That the world is in such a mess, that no one man could possibly do enough in 8 years to make a noticable change. I'm afraid that hope will just turn into hype and not the compromise that will be required to see Obama's vision come to life. I'm afraid that in the end, after all of the rockstar celebrity status, after all of the tears and wreckless optimism; Obama will turn out to be just another politician. Telling the world what it needed to hear in order to gain office. I'm hoping he's not going to let us down.