I didn't vote for him either, but so far I am favorably impressed with him. The inaugural speech yesterday was his best, so far, IMO. Not much of the loftly rhetoric from the campaign.

The world reaction probably has a lot to do with 8 years of Bush.

If we all had skipped GWB and gone straight from Clinton to Obama, I don't think the reaction would have been nearly so positive.

He's still going to have to DO things that make a lot of people happy to keep the approval....and DOING (as opposed to talking) is something he hasn't done much of....

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