Aecetia: I think the next four years are going to take a tremendous toll on Obama. I admired his speech today for the simple reason that he didn’t sugarcoat things, or take the easy way out. I believe that turning this country around, if he manages to do so, will exact a terrible price on him.

It reminds of those pictures of Abraham Lincoln shortly before his death. You can see what guiding this country through the darkest years of the Civil War did to him. Or LBJ at the end of his Presidency following the years prosecuting the Vietnam War.

Obama has his work cut out for him. Dubya will probably look better four years from now. I hear the weather in Argentina has restorative properties.