The opening paragraph from MSNBC's Analysis of how Obama will battle the GOP for the presidency:

How do you know if Barack Obama is unhappy with what you're saying— or
not saying? At meetings of his closest advisers, he likes to lean back,
put his feet on the table and close his eyes. If he doesn't like how
the conversation is going, he will lean forward, put his feet on the
floor and "adjust his socks, kind of start tugging at them," says
Michael Strautmanis, a counselor to the campaign. Obama wants people to
talk, but he doesn't want to intimidate them. "If you haven't said
anything, he'll call on you," says Strautmanis. "He's never said it,
but he usually thinks if somebody is very quiet it's because they
disagree with what everybody is saying … so Barack will call on you and
say, 'You've been awfully quiet'." There are no screamers on Team
Obama; one senior Obama aide says he's heard him yell only twice in four years. Obama was explicit from the beginning: there was to be "no
drama," he told his aides. "I don't want elbowing or finger-pointing.
We're going to rise or fall together." Obama wanted steady, calm,
focused leadership; he wanted to keep out the grandstanders and make
sure the quiet dissenters spoke up. A good formula for running a
campaign—or a presidency.

I certainly hope he's ready for what's coming.  It won't be pretty.  I've said this before and I'll say it again here.  I'm starry-eyed and naive with respect to the political process.  That said, I wish that one's character, quality and intellect were the prevailing forces in selecting a president and not the politics of mud-slinging, destruction, gotcha and sound-bite.  For all that she did, I am thankful for Hillary dragging it out this far.  She "vetted" him and prepared him for what's coming.  One has to think that his campaign is now structured in a way that it would not have been had Hillary not tried him.  The more I hear about Senator Obama, the more I believe that he is the right person for this moment in time.