How will he govern?

Will Barack Obama indulge himself -- as Bill Clinton did in his first term -- by tacking hard to the left? With Clinton, it was an attempt to nationalize the health care system, an adventure in socialism that backfired in the 1994 mid-term elections, with the election of New Gingrich's Republican Congress.

Left wing Democrats like Chuck Schumer are already dreaming about such a radical administration. Will it come true?

Humourist Greg Gutfeld points out that Obama's campaign was all tone, and no substance. "Change" can mean anything a voter wants, including free gas and mortgage payments.

I hope that there are enough sensible Democrats around him to ensure that he doesn't have any further contact with his mentors over the past 20 years -- the racist Jeremiah Wright, the corrupt Tony Rezko and the terrorist Bill Ayers. I guess that's the Manchurian Candidate question: now that Obama has the power of the presidency, does he implement the agenda of the men who helped form him, or does he abandon them and do what most Democrats (and most Americans) hope he will: govern with their public interest at heart?

You can already see in his acceptance speech his attempt to lower expectations. I suppose that in itself is a promising sign.