Hope is running rampant in America again, an immediate post-election uplift felt in many quarters like the night we landed on the moon.

Although we had known in advance that the lunar module would land and that Neil Armstrong would get out and speak to us from the moon, we were flabbergasted when it actually occurred. We were simply not prepared for the stunning reality of it. How could we be?

On election night, the only person who seemed prepared was the president-elect himself, Barack Obama. He took the podium to remind us that, appearances to the contrary, the election was not the change he had been talking about. It was merely an opportunity to change, and that hard work of making change would now begin.

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