I may be a little bit upset with the failure of many of the initial policy agendas, and their lack of liberal-ness, but right now, I’m feeling good on Obama, and the future. Why, well, that turns out to be a research question in and of itself. Most of my positive thinking right now is due to a) Millenial Makeover, b) the state of the union address, and c) the question and answer session.

If nothing else, Obama, paradoxically, has reduced Republican participation in governance to idiocy. Republicans look like irrational, incompetent fools, and people are noticing this. Now, this doesn’t mean Republicans won’t get elected in 2010 or maybe even 2012, but Obama should be a landslide winner in 2012. Republicans are being reduced to irrelevance, and in part, they are doing this to themselves.

More than ever, I’m convinced that Barack Obama is the absolute perfect president for this time in America. But it may be the next one that brings the kind of policy sea-change promised in 2008.