Barack Obama: Four More Years

So, it is over. In what turned out to be no where near as close an election as it was assumed it would be President Barack Obama was reelected President last night with, once Florida goes into the President's victory column, will be over 330 electoral votes.

What does this mean. It means a few things and I will address these issues in as concise a way as possible over some upcoming posts.

The first thing we need to do though, all of us, and take a deep breath. I have great friends who are distraught this morning. It is hard for them to understand that, for one night at least, they are in a minority. I totally understand their feelings. Those on the winning side last night should take care not to gloat, they should remember that if the race last night had come out the other way they too would have felt the same way this morning.

The question we need to ask ourselves is what do we do to change the fact that so many people feel that going to Canada if the other side wins is an option, even one discussed jokingly, rather than a feeling that we will have to work together to make things better.

This is a challenge for everybody. There is no room to gloat, there is no room to dig in and be obstructive. We need to see both sides working together with an absence of malice and rancor.

If this cannot change we will have a significant problem.