Restoring some respect for America after Bush is out of office

Short of my preferred solution, which is arresting all of them -- Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove, Wolfowitz, et al -- and turning them over to the World Court to be tried for Crimes Against Humanity -- a talking head on TV said something I think is probably accurate:

That electing a man of color named Barack Hussein Obama, whose middle name is quite common around the world, would tell the whole world that perhaps we've finished our era of electing sociopathic shit kickers and religious fanatics.

This makes him the first candidate of either party that -- to me -- might actually have a positive qualification to bring to the office.