It has been interesting to listen to all the hype about President Obama. How he has become the embodiment of almost everyone's dreams. A Superman or Messiah.

Mind you, I don't think he has encouraged any of that. Nor have his people. It just seems that's what we Americans want right now, so that's what we're hoping he is.

And I'm sure he's not. I suspect over time many will be disappointed. Nobody could live up to the expectations many are laying on his shoulders.

I expect over time, we will come to find, in some ways, he is more than we suspect.

But I learned something about the man this week that just makes me want to glow. And concede, perhaps, that those who denied this opportunity to Hillary may have been right.

Barack is the man for the job.

As most know, probably better than I, our President-elect spent part of the day before his inauguration helping refurbish a DC school. Aiding a project planned to commemorate Martin Luther King Day.

As the soon to be president painted his wall, a reporter asked him some question about this special celebration for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

This question being insensitively asked with King's eldest son, Martin Luther King III, kneeling and working immediately to the President's right.

Rather than taking that easy opportunity for a photo op, our new President, understanding that the day was to celebrate MLK, not Barack Obama, deferred the question to King's son.

Asking the son of the man being honored what he thought of this celebration of his father's memory.

And keeping us focused on what is real, not just what is good TV.