A Revolution of Rising Expectations

(Artwork: Ben Heine)

My friend and neighbor Dan Hamburg points out the immense challenges facing the new president, and warns:

He must produce. If Clinton faced deficits, Obama faces chasms. Military quagmires. A broken health care system. Public education in shambles. Unprecedented income inequality, and an economy on life-support.

If in two years Obama voters feel cheated, their high hopes unfulfilled, there will be hell to pay--for the Democrats, but more importantly, for the country.

Here is an interesting blast from the past that offers some insight on the present:

"What was Barack Obama like in 1990?" (a story from February 1990 on Obama becoming the editor of the Harvard Law Review)