The US

will shake her collective head and ask how did this happen? about 2 years from now if Obama is elected president and he ruins this country with his socialistic ideals. If not and everything is more or less good for the country and there never really was a danger of him destroying the country in the first place, it will just go to prove what some people say- It doesn't make any difference who's in office, the government will get bigger and the only difference in individual lives will be the pain caused by increased taxes.

I personally would have to add and the loss of some personal freedoms and rights.

Whether he is elected or not, whether he hurts the country or is the best thing to ever happen to it the medias basic story line will soon be, how did this happen? How did this unknown come from nowhere to be a candidate for president on the most vague platform ever in the history of presidential politics?

The answer of course is the media itself allowed it to happen. If he was white and conservative, he would not have lasted 5 minutes before the press destroyed him by taking him to task on the vagaries of his platform.