Whoops!/Inauguration Opinion...

After publishing my internet comics post, I realized that the pictures did come out a little lopsided (they weren't entirely there!). If you really wanted to see them, and you didn't already find this out, then all you needed to do was click on the picture and you could see them in all their comic entirety!

Anyways, now that that little technical error is out of the way, on to serious business...for those of you that don't know, I was one of the very few youth who wasn't in favor of Obama. However, at the same time I didn't like McCain either, so I was kind of in a rut. There was no doubt that Obama was going to be our new president - if he didn't get elected after the '04 election, I would have been shocked. Therefore, I decided that no matter what, whether I agreed with them or not, I was going to suck it up and treat the new president with the amount of respect they deserved, unlike nearly every American when it came to Bush (true, he was bad, but he wasn't Hitler, either).
Knowing all this, I expected Obama's speech to be beyond flawless. He is, and always will be a phenomenal speaker - part of this because he knew what he needed to project to the public; partially because the things he had on his platform were things that the common people of America would be enticed by after our economic pitfalls/a war no one agrees with/other issues made prominent by the media/other platforms for politics. He has wonderful people skills, something that everyone couldn't help but notice after George W. Bush's mess-ups and such during his speeches. On top of it, Obama was against John McCain, who, although the differences between him and Bush are somewhat abundant, they were both old republicans who had difficulties in speaking/relating to the public, and this caused problems with the general public.
Anyways, my expectations for Obama's inaugural address were probably beyond what they should have been, so...I must admit that at first seeing it, I wasn't nearly as impressed as I probably should have been. I felt he was really just reiterating what he had said throughout the election, which I guess is what you're really supposed to do, but I was hoping for something more, something that would really solidify to me that he was the right guy for the job.
Listening to it again, it was a truly admirable speech. My confidence that he will serve our country the way it needs to be served during this difficult time isn't there yet, but maybe it is good to wait until he does things to make up my mind.