obama: the facelessness of things to come

Hard to believe that Obama will be inaugurated this week. I have no idea what will happen here. We know some things. He is a politician from one of the toughest political areas in the country. He is smart, very ambitious and has a vision or some feeling of destiny. He inspires people. He does not seem particularly willing to break new ground initially as evidenced by his Clinton preoccupation in his cabinet appointments. He believes in government is a good tool and should be used. He has no administrative experience at all. Facing him will be bigotry, the American citizen's genetic fear of government, the unbelievable debt we have taken on, the energy mess which has no obvious solution but threatens more debt, the anti capitalists to whom he owes a great deal, the hard core Americans for whom the financial and organizational changes will be philosophically anathema, and the conflicts and stupidity that seem to be inherent in the democrat congress.
And, for the financial and energy problems,a clock seems to be running.
Remarkable times.