I feel sorry for Barack Obama.

Does he have the strength and courage to face the hard travails ahead? Is his back strong enough to carry the expectations that this country is placing upon him? Does he understand the impossible task ahead of him?

I am sure he understands that he cannot do it alone. He is only human. I hope that the rest of America understands that as well. By fate or circumstance, he has been called to lead this nation.

If there is such a thing as Divine Intervention, I pray that he somehow finds it. Few Presidents have inherited such a mess as that which he is about to be handed. It is a job too big for mere mortals. Yet, that is all that we have - a mere mortal.

Let us not expect the impossible. And let us understand the many different directions that Senator Obama is now being pulled. He will need the patience of Job and the wisdom of Solomon to survive this journey on which he is about to embark.

coalitions and consensus so that he doesn't have to do it alone. He gets people involved.

That will be what saves him. And the rest of us.

even as a basketball player. And the way a person plays basketball says a lot about their character.

Not just Barack Obama. But the expectations are very great... We should be careful not to make his load any heavier than it already is...

That is why the motto on his website says "I'm asking you to believe. Not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington ... I'm asking you to believe in yours". That's why we volunteers are all precinct captains, we're making calls & going door to door, and now we are going to fund the entire campaign. We have ownership in this campaign right along with Barack. It is not just one man. It is Obama and millions of his friends. He is not alone.

The RW needs to shut up and grow up. America's problems are not a damn game, we're going to need everybody to solve them.

What he needs is active, continued support from the rest of us. And he will get it.

He will need all of us.

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once he gets to the White House (I'm being positive, and not saying "if"). I think his tendency to pull together a team effort (that "yes, we can" thing) is really going to help him though. You're right--he can't do it alone. I don't expect him to work miracles, but I think if he can get in and start opening up government, getting some transparency and clarity about what the White House is doing--we--meaning the informed citizens and I think a friendly, Democratic-controlled Congress (augmented by down-ticket pick-ups I think we are bound to get from a better than average turn-out this GE) will be able to get a lot done. I'm feeling all "Hope", "Change", "Progress" about it.

I won't underestimate what mere mortals can do--little was ever done by anything but. And I think a whole bunch of us have been turned on to what's at stake. All we need is the opening--a decent person in office. Who wants to do the right thing. Who will pick a like-minded cabinet. Who will heed the rule of law and respect human rights.

Only thing I'd feel sorry about is if he doesn't get in. Then I'd feel sorry for him the way I do for Gore and Kerry--I feel for them and how they must feel sometimes, knowing they'd have done better, knowing they had all these good ideas, and not being able to do them. That has to be frustrating. But I think Obama's the guy, who if he gets in, will thrive in office, because he'll be doing the things he wants to do. I think he can handle it. It won't be an easy ride, but a more enjoyable one, with a better destination.

I think. And we should not be so quick or impatient to make judgments about his positions. He is a smart politician. We should not assume that he is going to vote one way or the other until it happens...

It's our country and it is a democracy. Failure would be our fault, not his.