Obama ran for the office on inspiration, but he may wind up being remembered as the fix-it president.
Above all, Obama's inherited a government badly broken by eight years of abuse -- but that government is the only instrument he has to get the job done.
How can becoming more competent and capable compete with having or doing things just for the sake of a distraction?
We called on the President to leverage ambitious action at home to advance a broad foreign policy agenda, including a five-point strategy for UN climate negotiations.
With his liberal credentials unquestioned, Obama can do something that no Republican could accomplish without being accused of social treason.
The need for improving our education system has never been greater. The rest of the world is catching up with us competitively, threatening our economic and national security.
As president, Obama is historically situated to reframe the American conversation around democracy, diplomacy, opportunity and a greener world. What's more patriotic than the story of progress?
It was a "change" election all right, but will it actually change Washington and America? November 2008 wasn't so much a culmination as it was the beginning of a new chapter in our national story.
If the crowds celebrating Obama's victory go home in 2009, his Administration will achieve disappointing results. The President-Elect will confront a variety of national and global crises.
Obama is not a terrorist. But you can call him whatever you'd like -- as long as you call him the President of the United States of America.
Tutu counsels that Obama "could squander the goodwill that his election has generated if he does not move quickly and decisively on the international front."
Can the media be faulted if one candidate is committing the major share of gaffes or making the most inaccurate statements in speeches and in ads? Is it "bias" to recognize that?
The Republican Party is only a step away from becoming the fringe of the fringe -- and I speak as a former lifelong Republican who, up through the 2000 primary campaign supported McCain.
There is a promise in Obama's election that goes beyond any explicit pledge made during the campaign. That potential may be found in the reaffirmation of America's identity as a true land of opportunity.
Though Europeans generally rejoiced in Barack Obama's election as 44th President of the US, a number of leading European lawmakers and journalists have made "foot-in-mouth comments."
I grew up in segregationist Louisville, Kentucky. Jim Crow is not a page in a history book to me -- I was there and I lived it.
The pressure on Obama from self-centered, single-Issue constituencies has started. Don't you get it? We have an opportunity unlike any other for dec...
They talk about coattails in terms of a popular candidate pulling other candidates with him. I hope Obama's victory has coattails in business too. Change is good.
Barack has a lot to live up to. There's a ton of weight on that man's shoulders, but I feel confident and hopeful that things will work out. I promise to try and keep a stiff upper lip at least until January 20.
Obama should push for measures to deal with a variety of urban issues in exchange for the financial assistance sought by auto makers, Wall Street investors, middle class homeowners and the rest of America.
If the president-elect wants to highlight the national security or business dimensions of energy, he could select from a list of lesser-known candidates.
It seems the demands for accepting the progressive mandate of the election, Going Big and emulating FDR -- are starting to be echoed even in the elite media stratosphere.
But most of my Middle Eastern friends also understand that Obama's election will not automatically lead to substantive changes in American foreign policy.
Now comes word that President Obama plans on going back and correcting some of the boneheaded decisions Mr. Bush made while running the Texas Rangers (into the ground).
