Coronation Day

As history is being made today in Washington D.C. with the inauguration of the 44th President of the United States, the mainstream media is falling all over itself to cover every single second of the day with all things Obama. Yes they keep wondering aloud if this will be the return of Camelot to the White House. How could it be? This is not the Kenedy family. No, this is the era of Obamalot, of audacious hope and the buzzword of the new mellenia; change.

Well, I certainly hope that they are right even if the media's blatant fawning is rather repulsive to experience. The Obama's will have the limelight today and rightfully so, but the economy will still be in shambles, our enemies will still plot against us, and people will still be worried about losing their jobs. Hope is a great thing to have, but the more hope we have for this new administration, the farther they will have to fall if they don't get it right. Maybe we shouldn't set them up for failure by placing them up on such a high pedestal.

Yes, history is being made. But at the end of the day, Barack must set all memories of the home planet of Krypton aside and roll up his sleeves and get to work here on Earth. He is not Superman after all, he is just the 44th President of the United States. He will make mistakes, (he has publicly warned us of this) so I hope that we will not be too busy teaching his story (History) before the ink has dried on the page. Let's give the man some time in office before we judge him too harshly. I hope that his brand of hope and change is exactly what we need. I pray to God that it is, because frankly, I do not know just how much more bad news our country can stand to take. We need to start gaining some traction against the tide of dour news.

Yes, let the coronation begin. Let the festivities be gay. Let's all be witnesses to history. But lets not ruminate on the event for too long lest we forget that real work needs to get done here. The real work of audacious hope and change.