Another view....

I believe that the Obama election will have the effect of throwing kerosene on a burning fire.

I believe that the change he promised has already been denigrated by the selection to his cabinet of the same Washington insiders/lobbyists that have participated in accelerating the moral, economic and political slide we have been experiencing.

Our country was founded and made great by people of ambition, creativity, diligence and the embodiment of rugged individualism. The dilution of those qualities have weakened our society immensely. The behaviors that are rewarded are those will proliferate. Heaven help us if the rewarded behaviors are those lacking in the above virtues.

The administration's stances on unionization, trade, fiscal policy, tax policy, entitlements and health care will be disastrous in the long term.

The social policies will weaken our character and the foreign affairs policies including over reliance of the corrupt U.N. will leave us in an extremely weakened state with regard to our enemies; and we do have enemies. In a world of shrinking resources, those enemies will be ever more aggressive in acquiring those resources.

While I wish him success as our president, I have great difficulty in having any optimism. I believe he is a gifted politician, but I do not believe he understands the true qualities that result in greatness. He preaches the warm syrupy sap of equality of outcome. That is truly the road to serfdom for all. I realize that the average human longs for security and unearned equality, however they do not realize that the quest for achievement and the competitive fire that results in true achievement results in the economic betterment of all in society.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill:
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.