Inauguration Thoughts

I still believe Obama's speech was lackluster but when you consider how momentous this day was, could any speech live up to the occasion?

Obama's speech was of a perfect length. Americans are in no mood for a reprise of William Henry Harrison's oratory.

What the hell was that "poem"? I know what she was trying to do, but she did not carry it off with skill or any degree of emotion. Grade of "F", Teach!

I enjoyed Yo Yo Ma and Itzack Perlman's performance. I was wondering how these musicians were able to finger their instruments in the cold.

Barack Obama can not change the world overnight.Heck, the only thing he can change overnight is his underwear. But I feel confident that we have a president who has a great degree of political acumen, a matching amount of political capital to spend, is capable of analyzing the condition of this country, and that he can put forth a full effort to solve these problems. We are all in a better place tonight.

The stock market dropped more than 300 points today. Every passing day proves the market movers and shakers are less intelligent than the dirty water hot dog vendors on the sidewalk outside the NYSE.

I hope Obama's first executive order bans those endless telephone voice mail systems with the endless loops designed to prevent you from talking to a real, live person.

Obama's election proves that the United States is not a racist country, but do not doubt that there still are plenty of racists out there.

I hope Obama's election lifts the vision of countless black children who mistaken thought that education and proper speech was too white and not "keepin' it real". I hope the kids pull up their pants, turn off the hip hop and open a book. I hope some of them think that they can be like Barack Obama if they follow that path. I hope the black male prison population drops precipitously.

Hope will not change the world. But you can't change the world without it.Tonight, so many of us have it.