Not only did he publicly and deliciously diss George W. Bush in his forever-etched-in-textbooks inauguration speech, now Barack Obama is actually following through on the what seemed like over-the-top promises he fed us during the campaign. I ate it up like cold pizza leftovers but shamefully and silently thought, "Whatever, like he's ever going to do anything he's promising." But, ohmigawd, he is. Unlike so many other politicians, not only is Obama clearly in love with his wife, his rhetoric wasn't said in a void. Closing Guantanamo Bay? Check.
This article appears in Jan 21-27, 2009.
