He's gonna dazzle us all.

I sense that Barack Obama may try to bypass Congress. Not totally. But in large part. To get his legislation through. He'll try to sell his programs to the people. By traveling. Going out and about. Going right into Republican hotbeds, for instance, and talking to people at town and city hall meetings. And the audiences won't be screened. Come one, come all. And then it'll be the people in grassroots America that bring pressure on their senators and representatives to support the Obama legislation. Obama is a smart man. Maybe the most intelligent president we've ever had. He knows how the political game is played in Washington. Politicians are bought by lobbyists. Even the news media are in the pockets of special interests. The people who report the news, unfortunately, play the political game just as much as the elected politicians. They're all bedfellows. And it's us citizens out in the hinterlands that get ignored. Well, Obama is gonna change the nature of the game. In coming weeks, coming months and coming years, the Washington establishment elites will discover that they've been outmaneuvered by Obama. This guy Obama is interesting. He has an amazing grasp on how to get things accomplished. How to deal with people. A mix of people. He grew up with relatives both black and white. With Christians and Muslims. And atheists, too. He's lived in Hawaii and Indonesia and Chicago. He went to Harvard. He taught law at the University of Chicago. And he seemed to come out of nowhere in a short time and became elected to the highest office in the land. And now he's gonna turn Washington on its head. He's gonna dazzle us all. --Jim Broede