President Barack Obama
 

Congrats to him. I wish him and his family the best of luck. We'll be watching.

Watching for what, exactly?

Watching how he conducts the business of the country.

The next big milestone will be who he surrounds himself with for a staff of advisors and consultants. This will be the most important step of the process. A president is only as good as who he confides in and takes advice from.

Oh. He probably expects that.

I would imagine that his chief of staff will be the first big one and the rest of the choices should move rather quickly after that.

Exactly. I wish that nominees for at least a few of those positions were revealed prior to the election, but having said that, I tend toward trusting Obama to fill those spots wisely. It was an important factor in my decision.

I think there's a decent chance he'll appoint Colin Powell to his cabinet. That would be interesting.

I bet he would gladly have him. I seriously doubt he would accept.

I heard commentators predicting he'll bring in some key republicans. I do hope so. Like I said in another post, what's needed is a raprochement of some kind between the two sides of the body politic.

The transition team is already in Washington, hard at work. They've got a lot of work to do.

he should throw Ron Paul into the mix just to spice things up a bit.

fixed that for you

I'd just like to also throw out a congrats to Lewis Hamilton; the youngest ever Formula 1 champion, and the first black champion as well.

I can only imagine what the last few days must mean to young black lads growing up in my own country.

Chris Shays is looking for work. Being in a state like PA that is pretty evenly divided conservative/liberal it seems really weird that New England has 0 Republican representatives.