Sometime during the course of the presidential campaign, one candidate or the other opined that the President could do more than one thing simultaneously. Given the myriad of serious and worsening problems facing our nation, yes Barack Obama will be very busy attending to all of them.

Obviously, there will have to be priorities. And there may be some problems that he simply won't be able to get to or that we won't be able to afford to fix for awhile. I feel sorry for our young President. His hair will be white before the next election.

When you think of the heavy and continuous responsibilities of the job, it makes you wonder why anyone would make such personal sacrifices to do it. One certainly has to respect the commitment of anyone who holds the office and be thankful that we elected someone so obviously committed, smart and talented.