Good news! Barack Obama is effectively the President already.

That's right. You dont have to wait till Jan 20, 2009 as I previously thought. He is pretty much running the show already.

Remember Barack's first press conference where he said "we only have one president at a time in this country"? He was right. It's him.

After that first press conference he went to visit W in the White House and his tone dramatically changed after that meeting. Does anyone want to bet that W in so many words acknowledged that Barack Obama should be more involved going forward?

He knows the people want him to take charge and he is delivering. Listen to him speak. When was the last time we had a President who was intelligent enough to think about a problem from many different perspectives?

I will give you a hint... think Bubba. Yes it was Bubba despite all his shortcomings.

I would really like to say it was a Republican president b/c the economist in me says I am more closely aligned w the conservatives b/c its the GOP that typically supports free market ideologies.

But it would be a lie if I did that.