(OK, taking off my eco-hat here)

Hey Suz – happy January. Is it summer on the ORegon Coast too?

(though I wouldn’t dream of lighting one of the Thanksgiving cadles for it – that would ruin ‘em!)

It could have been Guiliani.
It could have been McCain.
It could have been Romney.
It could have been Huck.

Yeah, this is a nasty-meat sandwich. And it is not anywhere close to what the circumstances indicate.

But this: it is not all bad. It is just mostly bad, and that is due in large part in my opinion, to circumstances. Obama is a centrist, post-partisan, mealy-mouth, whatever. It makes me grate my teeth in my sleep. And there is little solace to be found in the label “Democrat.” But it has been, and could indeed be, a whole lot worse.

I challenge no assertion you make in your piece. I only know that the incoming President is a “Not-Republican, Not white-guy, Not neocon,” and for that I am thankful.