Goodby and Hello

It was certainly a sad day in America. I listened with a heavy heart to President Obama give his farewell speech last night. A man and his family that have stood before us with elegance, intelligence and compassion will soon step aside. He leaves the office with the country in a much better state than when he took it. Except, of course, for the great division of our people.

Before I could even begin to process that eloquent speech this morning, I was bombarded by the antithesis of President Obama. The current President Elect would give the first press conference in 6 months and before he could do that the breaking news broke and shattered any thought of that press conference being anything near civil.

Although he used his new “presidential voice,” he didn’t even make the attempt at civility, attacking the mean media, of course and the wrong one, also of course. One would think that someone who had spread such vile things about his opponent just a couple of months ago would not be shocked to reap what he had previously sown. Fortunately for him he was able to focus most of the attention on the lewd and somewhat perverted sex act and keep the attention away from the unproven items like “Putin did know about the Wikileaks war against Secretary Clinton” and the back and forth communications between Trump’s campaign staff and “somewhere in Russia” for several months, etc. We will find out more about them later on, I suppose.

Anyway, I am going to do my best to bask in the afterglow of our current President’s speech for as long as I can. He and his family have given us something to look up to. Good night. Sweet dreams.