President Elect Obama continues to impress me

President Elect Obama continues to impress me. My vote was based upon an assumption that the man was first and foremost a rational decision maker. He appears to be managing to the center, trying to engage both the left and right, and more importantly he has brought competence, experience, and intelligence into his cabinet.

His task is nearly impossible, but I believe we have chosen as qualified and capable an individual as is available at this time in our history.

The election process here in the United States serves a valuable purpose in terms of educating and steeling the successful candidate for what is one of the most difficult jobs in the world, President of the United States.

That we were collectively frightened enough about the future to look past race and age and relative experience in this election is commendable. We either have elected the next FDR or the next Jimmy Carter. I hope for the former not the latter.