I know everyone else here (not to mention every single news outlet in the country) is blindly and for no reason obsessed with him, but I, for one, am pretty scared.
In my view, what the world really needs is for its citizens to get involved. The average person isn't
stupid; the average person simply tends to be woefully ill-informed due to apathy. Give the average person all the information that he or she needs to make a good decision, and that person tends to do just that. The problem is that most people tend to think that politicians are all the same, so why should they give a damn about anything?
Barack Obama has consistently shown himself to be by far the most inspirational politician that has been seen for a very long time, and has shown in Iowa and New Hampshire his amazing ability to get people involved in record numbers. Beyond all of the other issues and whatnot, I think there's a lot more to be said for that than people give it credit for.
