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Obama’s acceptance speech at the DNC was touching. It was a brilliant speech.

Do I believe he can truly deliver on even half of the things he promised America in his speech? Not for a second.

Admittedly, I’m not completely enamored by either of the alternatives for this November, but Obama’s nomination acceptance speech scared me. Don’t get me wrong, it all sounded wonderful, but I came away from it reminded of the kid who ran for class president when I was in 6th grade based on campaign promises of replacing all of the school’s water fountains with soda fountains. Plenty of kids voted for him because they loved the promise and incorrectly assumed that if he was promising it, he must have a way to make it happen. Those of us who took a minute to think about it realized that it was something that was beyond the power of one person and that it would take one heck of a lot of convincing and a whole lot of spending of money the school didn’t have in order to actually make it happen. Sounded great. Wasn’t realistic. It was a close election, but the better, more experienced, more realistic candidate won out in the end.

While it’s admirable what Obama has been able to accomplish in getting this far, I believe he will be used in future textbooks primarily as an example of the power of social media and online marketing, as well as the power of great speech making, but he will not make it into office. It will be close, but once enough people step back and look at the laundry list of campaign promises he made and do the math, I believe logic will prevail over emotion. He’s one heck of a salesman. In the end, that’s what he’ll be remembered for.