By Christopher Gabriel, CGabriel.com

Adoring crowds, people overcome with tears of joy, Hollywood’s best clamoring to feel important and Oprah “unleashed” – all of this in the name of one man:  Sean Hannity.  No, not Hannity.  I speak of Barack Obama.  Rather, President-elect Barack Obama. 

In a campaign Obama seemed to use the word “change” 37,263 times, we’ll now see how swiftly change comes to America.  And I don’t mean just the red states or the blue states.  I mean the United States of America.  That’s one of my favorite buzz-phrases from a campaign that seemed to begin back in 1883.

Now that John McCain has been sent home and President Bush will be going home soon enough, Obama will no longer have anyone to sound off against.  Or, for that matter, reel him in.  Congress?  Run by the Democrats.  The media?  They’ve been enamored with him since the Democratic National Convention in 2004. 

Some will argue a WWE-like Battle Royale is looming for America over solutions to the economy, health care and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  In the corner to my left, the good guys (or bad guys, depending upon your perspective):  Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.  And their opponents?  Really, does it matter?  The political rap group of Run OPR will turn the tables on this country in ways that suit their own myopic agenda.  The rest of you be damned.

At least that’s what many keep suggesting.

But I shouldn’t jest.  Consider the following:  Just the other day, I spoke to a 12-year-old girl in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.  She told me her family of six was struggling mightily.  They were behind on their mortgage, their car was repossessed and she was babysitting at night to help pay for food.  But as depressed as things were, she knew all would be fine in a few months because of Barack Obama. 

I said to her “do you think we can pull together as a nation under our new president to overcome this awful financial crisis we now find ourselves in?”  In her sweet, young voice, she said “yes we can.”

Of course that entire anecdote was made up.  Or was it?  Nothing like a poetic, perfectly winsome story to further a political agenda.

Over the past 18 months the only thing more redundant, and often comical, has been the rhetoric.  While this is nothing new in the political arena, it was taken to new heights this year by the various players.  Now, there’s only one player left on the court and that rhetoric needs to traverse from melodious words to congruous action in a hurry. 

I want Barack Obama to be successful.  We need Barack Obama to be successful.  And we need to get behind Barack Obama.  If he is unable to turn around the problems that ail us, it will rightfully be open season on the nation’s 44th president.

If No We Can’t replaces Yes We Can, then what?

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