Barack Hussein Obama is President!

It's a happy day in America. We'll be inaugurating a president who symbolizes new aspirations for so many of us and there is perhaps even a fair chance that this "symbol" will put some reality behind the rhetoric over the next few years (though I worry he and the Democrats in Congress will not, as do others).

I would have enjoyed seeing and hearing the inauguration events, but work intervened. It sounds like it was quite an inspiring event . . .

OK, so this is the last day you'll be seeing this on my blog's sidebar . . .

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And then it's got to
get better . . . right?

The Bush administration is finally over! :-D I have to hope that the creation and exacerbation of problems we've come to expect during the past eight years is at least at an end . . . I'm vitually certain we've at least cleared that low bar and that alone gives me a vast sense of relief!!! And now we get to watch and see how the new administrations handles the vast panorama of problems they've inherited . . .