Our Un-Enlightenment

America finally has a new president and vice president after a drawn-out campaign. Hopefully, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, the respective president-elect and vice president-elect, can follow through on their promise of change.

And, for them, I hope their implied buddy-buddy camraderie will translate to their newfound leadership roles. I have a feeling the pair is going to need the chemistry in order to live up to the pre-election hype.

Since the results were announced Tuesday evening, Americans have already shown an improvement in disposition. Apparently, we think that Obama and Biden will help eradicate the remnants of racism in the United States.

If Obama and Biden have any chance of living up to the public’s superhuman expectations, they’re going to need to go together likes Starsky and Hutch, Wayne and Garth, and Floyd and Louis from the upcoming film “Soul Men.”

Floyd, played by the late Bernie Mac, and Louis, played by budding chameleon actor Samuel L. Jackson, apparently fit together like a foot in a shoe, which is what the new top dogs will need to succeed in their new house.

I’m in the new Prez’s corner for now, so I suppose I have his Veep’s back, too. I’m excited to see how they will respond to the challenges of their offices, and I hope the chemistry between them that was so apparent on Election Night won’t disappear when the stresses of the White House take hold.