It feels like “morning in America” again, but with a leftward tilt. I feel pretty optimistic about getting a clean slate with Obama. He was wise to apolgize to Nancy Reagan, one of his few missteps during the campaign to ridicule her. I think he looks to Reagan’s 1980 model in getting his administartion off the ground and is going to emulate Reagan in some surprising ways.

NYC went crazy on election night. I have a mixed race friend (Asian/black) who is the color of Obama, and white woman were running wild kissing and hugging him, he calls it the Obama dividend. His black wife thought it was funny at first, then it got to be a bit much and she became annoyed, so that’s just another burden the black man will have to endure now that we have a handsome clean articulate and well tanned president.

White men have had to accept the athelic superiority of blacks in many areas for decades, its going to now be an adjustment for them (us) to accept the intellectual and politcal power they are sure gain. We might actully find out that with the right education and attention blacks can become more successful than whites in many areas, since they often have to work twice as hard to prove themselves in fields where they had not been widely accepted. Maybe America will become that shinny city on the hill that Reagan envisioned 28 years ago when he took office. The other thing that excites me about Obama is that he might be able to help affirmative action be eliminated in that he has already said his daughters should not be entitled to racial preferences becasue they come from a family with advantage. That kind of talk is very refreshing for most fair minded people of all races. Also, its good to see the Democrats willing to do somehting to save domestic auto makers. Those companies have made serious mistakes, but to let them die would be a huge mistake in the current economic climate, especially as bakers and broker are being saved with government funds. There has to be a stopping point for government intervention in the private sector, but the auto industry should be saved and restructured now, the problem is Obama owes labor unions too much. That’s where the union legacy cost structure makes them uncompetive with Asian carmakers. American workers are the best in the world, as evidenced by the way they build German and Japanese cars in southern right to work sates.

Larry, it’s so dissapointing the way you faded going into the election, your recent posts have no substance or point of view. If you’re too busy why not invite local reporters you like to contribute in your abscence?