Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

I leave you this fine evening with a column by Noemie Emery. I did not see it in prospect, but I see it in retrospect: Barack Obama's election was inevitable. Hillary Clinton, who devoted her entire adult life to becoming president, and who was a formidable candidate, couldn't beat him. No Republican could have beaten him. John McCain was merely the sacrificial lamb. Guilt-ridden whites have been so tormented for so long that they alleviated their guilt in the only way possible: by electing a "black" president. (Obama is as much white as black.) It didn't matter that Obama had no executive experience, that he had never run anything larger than a Senate office, or that he had questionable associations and judgment. He had Ivy League credentials and knew how to talk (er, read). Could there be anything more selfish than putting the alleviation of one's guilt ahead of the national interest? I realize that it's early in Obama's presidency, but things do not look good. He appears to be in over his head.