My private blogosphere, all 136 blogs that I read daily, is absolutely lit up with pride and joy and delight and tears today. My blog list, like my magazine list, is as diverse as my many personalities. All of these varied bloggers, who write about motherhood or technology or cooking or fashion or literature or the contents of their very own hearts … everybody is talking about Barack Hussein Obama and what he means to them. This is, after all, the whole point of him (I think): the promise of reengaging a hopelessly cynical people who are about to give up. To resow hope. What is better than that?

And, yes, now the hard work starts, after the euphoria ends. It sounds like he has a good plan for that.