So we've got a new president, and damn he's delicious.

I'm serious - i'm no liberal (I don't like cats or candles) - but I happen to think Obama is probably the strongest Democratic candidate I have ever seen: smart, inspiring and totally presidential. In short, he's an amazing messenger.

But I'm not a fan of messengers - I'm a fan of messages. And if the message is fundamentally flawed, i don't care how great the messenger is.

And that's the real story behind this election. The message Obama carried was one of "change," which can mean anything, and everything - rendering it every bit as meaningful as a baby fart.

Politics is the opposite of music. In music, if the performer is talented, she can sing about rotting fruit - it doesn't matter. See Bjork. But in politics - you need the message - and you shouldn't let the charm of the messenger distort your faculties. See Chris Matthews.

So what's Obama's message? I don't have a clue, yet. And neither does anyone else. Worse, It's been so long, that most people have forgotten what liberalism smells like: big, intrusive government, high taxes, weak foreign policy. I don't know if Obama is going to embrace the whole package- but his record says, "Sure, why not!"

I do like to think Obama will move to the middle - and there's a good chance he will. Fact is, our country, as a whole, hates liberalism. It's why the actual word ceases to exist -even its practitioners have buried it in the backyard. It's the soiled diaper of labels.

But if Obama does shift right - it's one thing we can thank McCain for. Seriously - McCain did more than Obama himself in shaping Obama's future presidency. By focusing on Obama's socialist rhetoric, his queasy tax plan and his creepy choice of friends - maybe America might start doing the same, and that could keep Obama in line.

The fact is, Obama is smart enough to see what the Republicans do right - even if he won't admit it. Right now, the Iraq war is over - which is why it wasn't a campaign issue. Under Bush, we've had no terror attacks in seven years, a free Iraq, an impotent Libya and a powerless Syria. If it wasn't for the crap economy, the election would be far closer. Which is hilarious - since the bad economy originated from the Robin Hood practices of the left.

The final irony of this whole thing: a candidate considered soft on terror will be forced to prove otherwise - as Biden unwisely pointed out. McCain, an old warrior however, would have had to prove he's a peacemaker. Which means, of the two candidates, Obama is more likely to bomb the hell out of something.

Although no one asked - I will not be moving to Canada.