Barack 'Black Jack' Obama

The comparisons have already begun, and we can suppose they are inevitable and will not stop until Barack and Michelle Obama prove they are nothing more than a married couple, albeit high profile, like many other married couples.

But then we can't be sure, for the media will play the soft side of the Obamas for everything it's worth. Already, Barack is the 'new JFK' and Michelle O has been compared to 'Jackie K' on the wondrous road to that fictionalized Camelot of yesteryear - the early 1960s and the Kennedy First Family.

Take a look a this Kennedyesque photo of the smiling, obviously happy Obama family on its way to the White House. Equally inspirational is the cover of the current issue of Ebony magazine - a lead-in to a glossy, insipid spread on the 'next First Couple.' They are not only all things Kennedy, but they are black, too, a powerful combination in our uptight politically-correct environment.

Does Obama really want to be known as 'the Black Jack' Obama? Is he willing to ride to power on the fantasies of Camelots past, or does he want to forge a name for himself based on his own character and achievements? That depends upon how much he values his own person, but then he is a politician, is he not?

Please, let's not have a 'Black Jack' Obama and a Michelle O as modern day stand-ins for the Arthurian Kennedys of the past. Let's not give to this 'power couple' any more mystique than they truly deserve.

William H. Driver