It looks like Obama has won the election. Of course I am disappointed because I have not really heard of anything he is going to do other than offer “hope” and “change”. I caught a little of C-SPAN and they had some young guy call in to say he voted for Obama and was excited because “he was a good speaker”. Okay, we elected a good speaker as president. Now he is going to have to do something. He cannot vote present and he cannot talk. It is time to perform.

The good thing about America is that the shift from Bush to Obama will happen without revolt. Power will shift orderly and the union will survive. It is also not likely much will change either. It seems every candidate promises change but few actually deliver it.

I will go out a limb here and predict that Obama will be a one-term president. By the way, I would have predicted the same thing if McCain had won. Why? The problem today is the economy. The US did not cause the so-called crisis it but is suffering from it and is a contributor to the problem. The economic problems are global and there is only so much any president can do to fix the problems. So, when the next election rolls around the economy could still be the problem and Obama will be to blame for it. The problem is that I do not anyone who has an idea of what to do or how to do it.