presidency

• Can you believe it's fifty degrees today? How unseasonably warm for November!
• Alabama or Texas Tech?
• No, no I don't think we'll need Secret Service to keep our daughters out of bars. Maybe in the second term when they hit their tweens?
• Seen any good movies lately?
• Thanks for that secret CIA order authorizing the military to go after Al-Qaeda through clandestine ops in 15 to 20 countries with whom we already have tenuous and arguably hostile relations! I so enjoy challenges.
• Nice drapes.
• Have you got any more hand sanitizer?
• Did I mention it was unseasonably warm?

7 years, 1 month, and 25 days ago; a few hours after watching the second of the Twin Towers fall, I told my father "today is the most significant moment I will see in my life." Today, I think I stand transcendentally corrected. As tragic, violent and world-changing that 9/11 was, today stands on its own in history in a hopeful, peaceful, united way.

Yes we can.

Yes we did.

Yes we are.