True enough, Obama can't walk on water.

And for better or worse, he's not Che Guevara. Whatever his opponents may have said, he's no kind of Socialist. (But unlike Tony Blair or Gordon Brown, he doesn't make out that he is.)

There are realistic hope that he will be significantly better than McCain would have been, and a great deal better than Bush has been (and still is, God help us...).

Obama has been elected with the support of most American voters - a majority made up of a slightly higher proportion of "white" voters than Bush ever received, a slightly higher proportion of "black" voters, and a very much increased number of "Hispanic" voters (of all colours).

It all doesn't really add up to a much of a "Recipe for Disaster". Let's just see what happens.