I have the distinct impression that the media believes I should have a warm, fuzzy feeling because one man, three thousand miles away, has defeated another to become president of a country I have never even visited. I hope I’ll be excused if I don’t play. But before I get all dewy eyed perhaps someone would tell me one specific and incontrovertible change that will occur in my life as a result of Obama being in The White House and not McCain? I have managed to avoid much of the campaign but what I have seen and heard leads me to believe that Obama is a consummate politician, how scary is that? Controlled, contained, polished, briefed, rehearsed, an espouser of the right causes, speaker of the right words, glistening with symbolism, all a-quiver reflecting the political zeitgeist. Is this all there is, maybe it’s all that’s needed to win an election but I would suspect that leading the western world may require more substance than I’ve seen evidence for to this point. All I see is a cipher, a political construct but even that has to be a safer option than a klutz such as Bush doesn’t it? Tell me it does.