The Facts of Life

It is historic and an affirmation of the exceptional history and spirit of the United States of America that we have elected our first half-Kenyan President. I can’t help but share to some extent in the jubilation of Obama’s disciples. I preferred McCain, but the people have spoken, and they have spoken decisively.

Barack Hussein Obama is my President, and I wish him well. Let us hope that it is Obama’s rhetoric and not his record that will define his Presidency. Although, come to think of it, I don’t like his rhetoric much either. So let us hope that neither his rhetoric nor his record will be determinative. Audacious as that hope may be, I think it has a fair chance of being realized. After all, as Margaret Thatcher pointed out, “The facts of life are conservative.”