Whether or not you supported President Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election, you have to admit that he gave a nice inaugural speech. I listened to the speech (streaming online video) and turned off inaugural coverage after the entire ceremony ended. I really am not interested in watching or hearing talking heads dissect the speech. The audacity of those who interpret the meaning of someone else's words for the masses astounds me. I used to shroud my brain in my skeptic's umbrella in my English literature classes when professors would tell us what specific passages of poetry or novels meant—as if they knew what was going on in the author's head as he or she wrote them. And by the way, lest anyone mistake my meaning, when I wrote about shrouding my brain, I meant figuratively instead of literally.

I can't tell you what Obama's speech meant, because only he knows the real meaning and intent behind the words he delivered. All I will say is that in my entirely subjective opinion, it was a nice speech, not unlike other nice inaugural speeches. And perhaps that's all it needed to be. However this listener was hoping for more.

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'Twas a mere two weeks before the end of a year
Filled with economic unrest and little to cheer
Or so it would seem, as the headlines screamed
"The sky is falling; this isn't a dream"

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Maybe you’ve heard that we have a new president—or president-elect, as someone at the office reminded me. For many of us, the election of Barack Obama is a sign that we now can get on with our lives. The never-ending campaign is finally over. Well, some people don’t want it to end.

I’m not going to share anything earth-shattering in this blog about the election and its ramifications. Obama and his newly elected cohorts are to be rewarded with a weak economy and two war fronts. They have their work cut out for them, and an energized electorate that expects some changes. I don’t envy what lies before them.

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