Good Signs

This morning on NPR, a feature on the expectations for Barack Obama’s presidency included a clip of a woman who said something to the effect of, “He’ll work some magic.” Obviously, expectations like that are dangerous and set him up to fail even when he’s succeeding. Last night, though, I saw a sign of something more real: six kids in my neighborhood parading down the street with a makeshift drum chanting, “O-ba-ma, oo nah nae / O-ba-ma, bom-bah-yae.”