Entities and persons angry with the United States are already plumbing the shadows cast by President-elect Barack Obama's strengths to find weaknesses in relief. In doing so they also want to deepen America's shadows. Opponent regimes and non-state terrorist groups have sent some subtle and not so subtle signals that they will try to use Obama for their own purposes.

We heard al-Qaeda's number two try to divide African Americans by referring to Obama, Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice as "house Negroes." They also argued that Obama is a stooge of Israel for pledging to continue supporting Israel. Some domestic hate groups have also sought to use Obama's election as an occasion for segregating America with violence.

In answer to fascists foreign and domestic, all of us, of every race, affiliated or not, must support Barack Obama and his presidency where we agree with him, and where we don't, use our First Amendment. Those are two duties of Americans who abide by the law.

I've disagreed with Barack Obama and nearly everyone on this website on the significance of the abortion issue as central to other life and death issues before the government. Because of it I didn't support voting for Barack Obama for president, but Alan Keyes.

However, Barack Obama has been elected president via constitutional republican democratic procedures and laws. In the main, those procedures and laws affirm life, personal security and a wise commonwealth rooted in both. While abortion undermines the implied and enumerated right to life in the Constitution's Bill of Rights, I believe the same Constitutional legal processes abused to make abortion a false right will eventually find that abortion violates more fundamental rights.

Barack Obama is going to be the nation's President in January. Therefore, he'll be my president too. My concern now is joining his supporters where we agree and have common interests. In that spirit, I offer the following input given that the momentous financial crisis now in the news will logically attract the president-elect's attention in the first term.

A great organizer and orator may be tempted to prioritize big hitting policy goals while triaging less sensational weaknesses in the policy emergency room. However, the Great Organizer must use his talents to cover the less dramatic flanks too. These may be less dramatic because of denial, poor emphasis, or gridlocked exhaustion.

In the age of terror we've seen front line war and peace spending poured out with abandon in the name of protecting America. However, despite warnings, back burner infrastructure vulnerabilities like food supply, anti-nuclear security, modernizing the nuclear deterrent, electric grid hardening, bio-terror countermeasures, and fair and orderly immigrant assimilation must get fixed.

We also need leadership that encourages domestic social cohesion, the cement of infrastructure. Obama shows some promise here if he doesn't give into fringe elements of his party's extremes. By social cohesion I mean neighbors and strangers yes, but more fundamentally, families.

Buttressing social cohesion and weaving it into economic strength, is the question of immersion education that rests on mastery, not social ladder climbing. The tortoise and hare both have their roles, but mastery mustn't be negotiable.

Of course we need reform. Yet some areas require revolutionary, trail blazing construction where gridlock and outdated methods have caused long neglect. We need new paths to avoid old gridlocks over education and health care. The infrastructure protection that began with computer systems in mind must keep pace with all key American infrastructures.

If we think the blow to the financial sector's nerve center is a problem, imagine what follows should life, health and productivity infrastructures fail. Katrina is a slight example of this compared to how unprepared the national medical infrastructure is for natural or artificial biological super-killers. We are behind the eight ball.

A popular president may pioneer a major economic recovery policy and rebuilt military. Yet that same president could lose all if he or she overlooked a downplayed infrastructure problem that became a crisis on his or her watch, perhaps destroying any gains in a financial reformation.

Finally, whether the financial storm is an accretion of sloth, greed and complacency alone,  or, also triggered by strategic activities abroad, those adverse to the United States will search for ways to use the momentum of financial crisis fallout to press advantage.

So where I believe my views would agree with our upcoming president on what will protect and save American lives, the aforementioned under-treated infrastructures must be prioritized as highly as the financial crisis. Economy is important, but America is not an economic deterministic polity. Infrastructure mastery, security and back-up is the economy's foundation. And national unity among diverse Americans is the fresh and renewable cement behind our engineering genius.