Guess what? Unemployment would've gone up this week regardless who won the White House.
Republican Mitt Romney was not the secular messiah, and Obama never has been.
Storms, earthquakes, tsunamis, droughts, famines, corporate greed/ethical failure happen, and one man, one party, one nation have very little to do with stopping any of them.
Certainly, it is easier -- and provides such a convenient outlet for our frustration, anger and, dare I say it, self-righteousness -- to regurgitate the myth of a President, a Congress, or the marketplace somehow comprising the be-all and end-all of our well-being.
But they are detours from a complex reality; they are the proverbial, and rhetorical "Straw Man," a diversion of willful, if desperate, self-delusion.
We can only control how we REACT, and when we do that together, with a unified purpose that transcends mere politics, and by calling upon the common ground of our faiths, then we have a chance.