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President Obama!

It’s a new day in America – new leadership based on critical thinking and problem solving, focusing on bringing people together instead of dividing them, engaging with our friends and allies, and challenging our foes with ideas, opportunity, community, and optimism just as much, if not more than with our military and economic strength.

We have a President who I believe is not only intellectually and temperamentally capable of doing the job, but whose life experiences and connections are so diverse and broad that so many people can identify with him: 

• Black Americans because of how he looks
• White Americans because of his mother, his grandparents, and how we was raised
• Intellectuals because of his education and obvious intellect
• Sports lovers because of his love of playing basketball and working out
• Muslims because of his father
• Africans because of his father
• Asians because he was raised in Indonesia for a time
• Professional women because of his wife
• Working women because of his grandmother
• Young people because of his relative youth
• Urban people because he lived in Chicago
• Christians because of his faith
• Secularists because of his critical thinking skills and his use of science as the tool to decide what is real and not
• Bowlers because while he did not exhibit any skill, heck he took a shot at something he likely knew he would not excel.

I admire Obama for having picked Joe Biden for VP – a move that could have made him look too young and inexperienced.  I admire him for staying above the fray, for the most part, during the election.

I look forward to his Presidency.  I believe that he is one of the smartest Presidents we have ever had, that he also has the temperament to handle himself in the office and avoid many of the troubles that others have encountered.

I feel good for the country and for the world. 

I’m also proud of John McCain for his concession speech which was gracious, patriotic, and ennobling – better than his campaign, better than his running-mate, better than his supporters.  Good for him.  I wish him well.