I just can't wrap my head around Obama being "the solution" to the desires of so many Independent and Democratic voters to elect a "fix-it it's broken" president.

I genuinely see him as the Thomas Dewey of 2008.

And sadly, I don't think either Clinton or Obama will be any more effective as president than Jimmy Carter was--and we all know how that one turned out in 1980.

I know right now it doesn't seem like any president could be worse than Bush/Cheney. But it could happen as early as 2012 if a Democratic president can't fix what ails the nation in the starry eyes of the Obama/Clinton for Change voters.

Neither of them is willing to take on the meaningful changes that could possibly fix what ails the nation (an antiquated, outdated, destructive 2 party system, political corruption at the highest levels of government and business, etc), so it is a given that there will be a future backlash trend of deep pessimism, possibly with Republicans like Newt Gingrich and Gary Bauer saying "we told you so" and getting elected president.