With yesterday's vote being historic and all – though it remains to be seen how posterity will define "historic" – I need to pause for a moment and acknowledge that a little over four years ago, immediately after our current president-elect gave the keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention, my good friend and fellow poor brother Dave sent me an instant message that read simply:

Barack Obama is going to be our first black president.

He's reminded me a few times over the past several years of his prediction, and more frequently at each point in the two-year race to the White House. Now, I have no choice but to humbly bow to his superior and inexorable skills of prognostication.

Now, let's pray that the event turns out to have been a positive one.