As Bob Dylan sang to us many years ago and still today: ” … times they are a changing.”

As was stated yesterday, “now we get to see which philosophy dominates the American psyche.”

Now we know!

What was it someone once said? “We don’t always get the leaders we need, sometimes we get the leaders we deserve,” or something like that. Now we have an interesting two years or four years ahead. Let’s hope it isn’t as non-democratic as some of us predicted. Trigger happy is a dangerous military stance in this world now and abuse of presidential power could be a polarizing and paralyzing governance.

Our hope now should be that our new president will forget all the statements and policy stances that he campaigned on and govern with more intelligence, foresight, and compassion. And let’s hope that he will get over his gender bias and insulting demeanor and do the right thing for the country.

President Obama’s talk this morning provided the right message. He had complete transition cooperation from the George W Bush administration when he took office and his administration will provide the same to our new president.

We may not all like the changes forthcoming, but we elected new governance. Our only path to policy change is at the polls again in two years and four years. In the meantime we will have to live with the changes forthcoming.