america turns blue

It is a historic election. The first African American president in US history. Everyone is elated, both here and abroad. Maybe the people outside the US even more so than we are. They finally see an opening after eight years of bullying, non-cooperation, pre-emptive strikes, and other destabilizing mayhem. They hope the US will take a leadership role once again, instead of being a stick-in-the-mud aggressor.

At home though, the euphoria will quickly die out. I doubt that there will be a honey moon period. America may have turned blue, but it is also singing the blues. Already the stock market brushed off the good news and turned to the sagging economy. There was more bad news from China too. Car makers who had hoped China would rescue them are bracing themselves for more bad news.

Good morning America! Maybe we are sexist but at least we seem to have dispelled the notion of racism. One tiny step for (a) man...