As if we must yet again rehash another herald back to the 1960's, our faces slapped down yet again in the mud of Woodstock, Timothy Leary and the moon landing. Haven't we had enough of yet another trip down Boomer lane to yet again explain a current phenomenon?

Obama is Obama, and if Obama represents change, then CHANGE we must embrace. Of a newcomer to the political scene who will bring with him his own brand of politics begotten from his own historical perspective. Let's stop this nonsense of having to reach back to yet another archetype of the 1960's in order to explain him, because it's farcical. Consider this: JFK WASN'T JFK. He was in office for no more than two and a half years before his assassination, and we never got a full whiff of what Camelot meant to America. We only witnessed the halcyon days of his early presidency, and ever since we've crafted this romanticized homage to what JFK felt like. And even that was arguably mixed: the Bay of Pigs disaster followed by the more deftly handled Cuban Missile Crisis. Adultery with Marilyn Monroe followed by the Moon project. Was he truly great, or truly a great image? We'll never know.

If we really want change we need to divorce ourselves of this need to paint him like someone else. He needs to stand on his own - on his own principles - and deliver for us what he claims he will. Change. The dawn of a new generation of leadership. Not an aberration of the past.

Let Obama be Obama.