So what?

So what?, is the theme for the day. It is my first post and I hope that it conveys a modicum of skepticism about politics in general and about the chiliastic fervor observed in those rowdies at Hyde Park. If they believe in nothing else, they certainly think that they have successfully immanentized the eschaton.

I'm not excited or particularly interested. Obama is a smart fellow, but almost completely uneducated. His advisors will be like him, progressives who believe that they have a rational/administrative solution to all of life's problems. His bi-partisanship is a sham, and his natural political instincts are tied to democratic party political hackery. He's not 'an agent of change', whatever that means, but a manifestation of the incompetence of the Republican Party, and he will likely govern like the wary Democratic party hack that he is. Plus ca change.