Politics

One more thing-- we've had some requests to know what the local reaction was to Obama's inauguration. I was talking with my collaborator and his research group over lunch yesterday and asked them what they thought. One young man said quite seriously, "he moves me." I thought that was nice! He also said he thought Obama was a man of the people, which I thought was interesting because that phrase can mean so many things -- for example Bush was a man of the people in that he's "one of the guys" whereas Obama seems to care about and stand up for the people or at least we hope he does/will. In general, people here seem to think Obama's got a lot on his plate but that he's quite impressive. I don't disagree!