FROM A READER - AT 3:47 P.M. ET:   Reader Alan Weick sent in this report:

A good  friend of mine travels to Bulgaria on business regularly.  I quote his  last email:

"I'm in Europe again (Bulgaria for the month) and they all think  the US has flipped out electing these people."

Why am I not  surprised?

COMMENT:  Many countries are realizing that a new messiah has not come to America.  A new president has.  Some may wish for the old one.

March 18, 2009