But Do We Have Time for All the Trappings of Obama's Greatness?

OK, I go back and forth from candidate to candidate, party to party. I was swept off my feet by Obama's speech in Iowa. But I'm already worried about the prospects of an Obama presidency. Maybe the whole greatness thing is over-rated. I'm not sure I want to spend the next four years observing self-conscious greatness surrounded by a smug sycophancy. It's all good, but do we really have time for that? We've got a few jobs to get done. Like, yesterday.

We definitely don't have time to prep for the picture-perfect Christmas card from a Romney White House. They better get off their high horses and get real! I loved when McCain said that Romney has been busy "looking at his shoes." I didn't think I wanted to look at the McCains for four years, but we have to get down to business, and McCain looks like he's ready to roll up his sleeves and kick ass. There are real threats out there, sinister folk just waiting for us to kick back on our laurels at a bunch of inaugural balls, toasting our various social policies, affirmative action, youth and beauty. Better watch our backs.

We need some greatness and glamour after what we've been through, God knows. But what kind, and how much?

The Kennedy-esque Kenyan and the Aw-Shucks Bass Player

I feel proud to be an American this morning. We, vicariously through Iowa, are showing the world that change is coming, that here in the land of the free and the home of the brave, we can lift a man named Barack Hussein Obama to the world stage on our behalf. Obama is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, and was president of the Harvard Review. It's beyond reassuring to imagine replacing Georgie Porgie with real brain power. Imagine a great orator in the White House! Remember Kennedy!

Mike Huckabee is a Baptist preacher who can rock the bass guitar. Let's not forget how he morphed physically, losing a hunded and twenty pounds a few years back. Mysteriously, if you look over Huckabee's shoulder, you may see a cross or you may see Chuck Norris. I look at him and am reminded at times of Kevin Spacey. This kind of stuff catches ordinary folk's attention. Huckabee has captured the Iowans' votes with relatively little money and virtually no political machine.

I can't wait to see what will happen in New Hampshire. It's fabulous to see democracy in action, and to watch the race crystallize. It can make a person feel vital, young, excited, hopeful, proud, and alive.

Power to the people!