The Hangover:

Now that America has shown it can do the right thing, we can go back to worrying about how to keep the ship from sinking. Let's hope that the election did not simply achieve—as Gail Collins put it today, that "American children are going to grow up unaware that there’s anything novel in an African-American president or a woman running for the White House"—, but rather that a master campaign strategist can actually guide us out of the morass we are all in.

What Obama represents for this country is the American notion that through hard work, dedication, persistence and a modicum of common decency we can overcome incredible odds to achieve success. No one knows better than Black men and women that this doesn't always turn out to be the case.

Oil Continues to Slide:

The price of oil dropped below $65 per barrel today. The last time I filled up my car gasoline was at $2.29.9 per gallon.