He is already the President.

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Sunday December 07, 2008 · 4:01 PM PST

2008/12/07 · 16:01

I don't know if it's a marketing ploy to make so much of his new team, or perhaps the politico hungry media is frenzy feeding on anything presidential, but it feels like Barrack Obama is already the president.

I think the truth of the matter is that we have not seen leadership in so long, anything even looks like leadership, anything that sounds articulate, anything that seems calmly put before us seems leader like. Hearing a policy speech with out the words "Terrorists" "9/11", and "Patriotism" is so rare, but so enthusiastically welcomed. Because Terrorists and 9/11 and in Patriotism has nothing to do with my life. I don't really encounter them unless someone is trying to scare me. I am just trying to get through this mess like the rest of you. So saying anything about what is happening versus some ideologically driven speech resonates with me, and my guess is, with most everyone else too.

I sat at a bar last night and it is one of those neighborhood joints where people like your parents go to, and sit and have a sandwich and a beer and chit chat. A news segment with one of Obama's policy speeches came on a flat screen behind the bar. It was closed captioned. Everyone at the bar sat quietly and read what he said.

It feels like a national archetypal movementthat we all just cannot wait for Bush and his idiots to be gone. Jung wrote about this. Before Hitler came to power, people felt uneasy, they had disturbing dreams about Odin, they couldn't wait for things to change. Towards the end of WWII his patients around 1944 began to sense something better was coming. They couldn't wait for change. It's like we have all been caught in a house where insane decisions are made, lies are told, things get worse and worse and we all just want to go running out t, he door and go somewhere...anywhere else.

Most Americans probably believe 09 will be even harder than 08. No one thinks Obama will be able to stop some of this disaster. But it doesn't matter. At least the guys who run ran us into the ditch will be out of the car, they'll hand over the keys, and someone else will be driving.

I like watching Obama speak. He is articulate and intelligent and that alone gives me hope. That alone.

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