...to have an incoming President that exhibits such controlled smoothness in assembling his administration, creating a legislative agenda to be acted upon even before he is inagurated, taking some initial actions to begin the improvement in our foreign relations...and at the same time being a good husband and father, all with a good sense of humor.

And guess what? President-elect Obama is telling us what he's doing and why. Three press conferences in three days? Unheard of! And we can understand his explanations, unlike the gobbledegook banker-talk that Henry Paulson used in explaining the new stimulus package that he tried to announce yesterday. I'm a retired banker and even I had a tough time understanding what Paulson was describing. I'm sure that most people had no idea what he was talking about. In the meantime our current President was pardoning the turkey and heading off to Camp David for the holiday. Ahh, maybe that's just as well. Talk about having screwed up priorities!

Given the problems the President-elect is facing, he'll have a lot of bad days, weeks and months in the future. He won't always have the huge support of the public that he has now. But in the end, I think we'll all conclude that America picked a winner this time around.