With Obama as president, a house and senate majority, and the chance to appoint some Supreme Court justices not named Scalia or Rehnquist, you guys gotta be crazy to think nothings gonna get done. Obviously, our government was created to be stagnant so mobs of stupid people wouldn't be able to change anything overnight, but at the very least the pendulum is gonna swing back the other direction. The way government money is spent, the way people are treated abroad, and the priorities that we give to our nation are gonna change.
Might not affect you and me on an every day level, at least not for a few years, but I'm optimistic. He's the best choice you can have in today's American political system. Which is kind of like saying he's the prettiest of all the fat girls. But its still nice.