As the mantel of leadership is about to change

I can’t help but well up with pride, virtuous pride, not one of the Seven Deadly Sins, as I watch from the warmth of my home the real unfolding of our greatest tradition, the peaceful handing over of the power of the Presidency in complete peace and outward harmony.

My frontal cortex is filled with this pride in the context of the useful dissections of Snark Twains’ two part essay on the four hypocrisies, especially as the lesser or more gentle ones shine on the faces of most everyone seen on our TV screens across the world. Those gentler and virtuous hypocrisies are driven by civility and politeness more than honestly in some of these cases. The wonders of that kind of hypocrisy, so displayed is OK with me, smiling faces, even if not all sincere is something to honor and preserve.

As Barack peaked us with nationalism by rejecting those who blame their troubles on the West, stop blaming America first, the line that drew in some extra breathes including mine was to unnamed leaders to whom he said their populations will judge them better by those things they create than by what they destroy.

While I wrote this, the mantel of leader ship did in fact change at Noon EST and a TV announcer informed us that the White House Web Site in fact had already made the change in a timely manner for all the world to see.

I am virtuously proud to be an American and similarly proud to be a citizen of the world, no less nor more deserved than the most isolated and even abused amongst the many defenseless who seem destined to suffer and as well as those who have privilidges not likely to be accessible to me, partly because I do not seek such advantage which is often not earned but a matter of happenstance. So be it, live with it and get over it. I did, you can.

Yes, we can.