Just a quick note on Obama's wondrous fame in his campaign days and first days in the Oval Office:
The media proudly announces Obama's extraordinary approval rating in his first day as the 44th President: 70-80%, in huge contrast with Bush's constant number in the same context for his last year in the office: 20%. The rhetoric master President has also acquired 500 thousand USD, about two fifth from his campaign website, even in the days of the (almost) second Great Depression prior to the election. Columnists of 'classy' magazines such as Times and the Economist used the extent of their vocabulary of accolades to highlight his message of change over the denounced Bush administration and the experience of a Vietnam War veteran. The culmination might be the inauguration as Time's Person in the Year. Tireless to show Obama's elegant pose in every edition's cover for the whole year, the Times editorial time might yet to seek for another trend. Automatically, the second and the third and the fourth contenders of the prestigious title fell for Obama's main opponents, including the dubious Sarah Palin. Well, Palin might have spoken more to the world with her lascivious fashion style rather than the belligerent Ahmadinejad who prefers bugging USA with nightmares of his lascivious nuclear weapon lifestyle.
Nevertheless, let's look back at November 4th last year. Obama succeeded to bring McCain's lifetime dream to an end, arguably, rather sweetly, since the margin between the two contenders as not as big as their age gap. Obama won by 52%; a margin of 2% is not to painful for a difference of 200 thousand USD in budget and presentation skills.
On the side note, the attendance of the President's real inauguration in the Capitol did not reach as many as expected. Despite of the media's boost of 3-5 million, 'only' one million appeared in the first place. The reason that the toll didn't reach as many as Obama's pre-presidential speech could be due to the quality of his speech in the inauguration, which mainly discussed about facts and possible steps ahead, rather than hopes and changes.