I imagine most red-neck Americans hate the idea, and fear what might happen.
I hope he comes in, and brings transparency, honesty, conscience, and all the other traits that those in power should display, but never seem to have. I especially hope he starts a productive dialogue with the Muslim world, and shows that through the West being tolerant and fair to them, they can moderate their own fanatics, and treat us with fairness and respect too.
If you don't support that, in my opinion you are simply waiting for the next excuse to spark off World War 3, so we can go and annihilate those who do not dress like us, or speak like us. I think visionaries such as Bob Dylan said all that need saying about the tyrant leaders of the so-called Western democracies in songs such as Masters of War. Or, to quote the late Bill Hicks- "How does the CIA know what weapons the Iraqis have got? Easy... they just check the receipts!"
I would rather see a chihuahua dog, or a giraffe, in the White House than anymore war-mongering George Bushes.
I think that Obama has a fantastic chance to change our world if he wins the presidency, and hope that he does manage to reform a very sick and decadent USA, though I think the gun-toting rednecks will not give up the real power easily. It is easy to ignore those who are starving, or flooded, or diseased, whilst becoming the fattest greediest nation on the planet, and wasting resources all humans need to share. It is not so easy to make personal sacrifice and help others, but vital for the survival of our species.
I would rather have a well-intentioned yet inexperienced Obama than more of the same from the Bush machine/clan.