Barack 'n' roll

Unless your name is Ann Coulter, you have to wish good luck to Barack Obama.

It doesn’t matter if you’re a Dem, a Repub or a Flat Earther. We have only one president at a time. As of noon Tuesday, he is it.

Sure, we have governors and congressmen, but no one has the clout and impact and wow factor of the president. So much depends on him, and this one person can do so much for good or ill.

If President Obama can fix our economy (without mega-deficits), keep the cost of gasoline low (as in below $4 a gallon) help the Big Three survive (without constant handouts) ease away from Iraq (without turning that country into the new Lebanon), ramp up the fight in Afghanistan (without getting bogged down a la Vietnam), his presidency will be a huge success.

And we will all be grateful.

If he blunders, all Americans pay the price as well as millions of people abroad.

It’s like that old saying, “What’s good for General Motors is good for the country.”

(OK, that old saying sounded better before GM became a classic symbol of a failing dinosaur, but you get my point.)

Go, O.