Readying to slink off into the night, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine continues to bustle about the business of securing future employment. He has signed on for a part-time teaching gig at the University of Richmond to be coupled with his work as Democratic National Committee chairman.

RICHMOND — President Barack Obama will appear in a new television advertisement for Creigh Deeds and plans to campaign with the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Norfolk.

RICHMOND — Democrat R. Creigh Deeds, trying to narrow a 8- to 9-percentage-point deficit in the Virginia governor’s race, is bringing in his biggest gun: President Barack Obama.

The first Democrat to win Virginia in a presidential race in 44 years, Obama conducts his first downstate campaign rally for Deeds at Old Dominion University in Norfolk on Oct. 27.

I suggested in a previous column that blacks, particularly the older and religious conservative ones, should endorse equal rights for members of the gay and lesbian community. A number of them took offense when gay and lesbian demonstrators used tactics that blacks used during the civil rights movement. Gay and lesbian marchers sang songs and carried placards with wording that blacks used when demonstrating and demanding equal rights back in the 1960s and ’70s.

Amid the gathering malaise of the post-euphoria era of Barack Obama’s presidency, trouble is afoot in Afghanistan. The commander of allied forces there wants more troops. Obama is disinclined to give them. Listen closely and one can hear echoes of the Soviet Union. Failure knocks and America opens the door.

CHARLOTTESVILLE — Most students attending Central Virginia public schools will have a chance to watch President Barack Obama’s live back-to-school address Tuesday, but some will have to wait until school administrators review the recording first.

When Cambridge, Mass., police Sgt. James Crowley arrested Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. for resisting arrest July 16, racial profiling once again raised its ugly head. The next week during a presidential news conference about health care, a reporter asked President Barack Obama about the incident. Obama answered the question, saying Cambridge police acted “stupidly,” arresting a 58-year-old (black) man with a cane for breaking into his own home.

Unsurprisingly, the march toward an Orwellian, one-world government/one-world currency has not missed a step with the recent transition from President George W. Bush to President Barack Obama.

Distant are the days when Gov. Timothy M. Kaine whisked across the commonwealth in the empyreal embrace of Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy, or what may be called America’s Third Great Awakening, a time, like the second, when women swooned, spirits waxed euphoric and reason rested. His hopes of landing on the ticket with Obama cast into a state budget chasm, Kaine today plays out strings while muddy water seeps under the door. Now he hopes only to avoid getting wet.

When George W. Bush was selected president (elected if you’re a conservative or a Republican), I was displeased, to say the least. Even so, I resisted immediately criticizing him. I figured he deserved at least a year’s time in office to get his bearings and feet wet.

I am sure you were as distressed as I was upon learning from the recent publication of the Obamas’ tax returns that their income took a decided downturn from that of the previous year when the revenue from books such as “The Audacity of Hope” were rolling in.

God made the world in seven days, while Barack Obama has needed the better part of 100 to make over America, thus proving the existence of a stunning albeit slender gap between a deity and a president whose restive liberal spirit yet hovers over the deep. God help us, he’s still not finished.

A popular admonition in sports and combat is to keep one’s head on a swivel, meaning to watch in all directions. President Barack Obama’s recent application of the concept with regard to prosecuting Bush officials over terrorist interrogations means Americans might be wise to be on the lookout, too, for another attack. Terrorists who are perpetually watching surely have seen our weakness showing.

A wave of unrest, which began unfurling last fall, washed across the country Wednesday, to the discernible notice of observers in the White House, where a lockdown was ordered, and the noticeable chagrin of the president’s compadres in Congress and his acolytes elsewhere.

I don’t know if other African Americans feel as I do about the anticipated changes we thought President Barack Obama’s election would bring, but I’m disappointed. I’m disappointed in the lack of diversity I thought his election would bring to television news reporting and shows.