Can Obama deliver?

He tells us that we can make the world the way we want it, and that man is intrinsically good. No more hunger or poverty, he promises; no disease, no illiteracy, no AIDS or malaria, no despair or unemployment or hopelessness or wretchedness or accidents or bad luck.One woman remarked with a blissful smile on television after the election that she would never have to worry again about her mortgage or the price of a full tank of gas.