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Like Myers, I'm cautiously optimistic about Obama, as all Americans ought to be.
American politics never benefits when the president's cheerleading section is too large. When Americans blindly support a charismatic leader, we lose. We become willing participants in potential corruption and bumbling inadequacy. Pointed criticism and careful oversight are the strongest weapons we have to keep politicians' toes in the fire, and when we forego their use, we surrender ourselves to the mercy and whim of our leaders.
President Ronald Reagan enjoyed sky-high approval ratings largely due to his charm and wit. But he was so appealing as a character that absolutely no one was willing to oust him for the doddering, incompetent old fool he was, and the sentiment that he was a 'good president' stays with us today.
And let's not forget the first five years of Bush's presidency. Most people, even liberals, became ardent Bush supporters following 9/11. Even the supposedly 'liberal' media was complicit in selling Bush's fraudulent and, in some cases, outright stupid policies to the American people.
The result? A broken economy and a continued occupation of Iraq which, by the most conservative estimates, has killed as many Iraqi civilians per year as Saddam Hussein himself did

s everyday Muslim-Americans take their political destiny into their own hands, they find a degree of success that wasn't possible with top-down organizing

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