What can we say? What an incredible victory for President-Elect Obama! Last night was a night for us all to remember, the scenes in Grant Park putting a bookend on 1968, where a lot of the last 40 years began.
The press for the most part acquited themselves well last night but I have to note the blathering early this morning of Joe Scarborough on The Morning Joe Yesterday morning he was talking endlessly about a John McCain comeback.
Today Scarborough is likening the victory of Obama to our putting the man on the moon, as if this were some kind of technical achievement.
That is nonsense.
This was a nation finally beginning to take the measure of a sectional politics that divides and conquers.
Finally we can share a genuine hope for a future expansion of the American democracy beyond the divides of race, religious moralism, and market fundamentalism.
I don't watch morning television, never have, except for the morning after a presidential election or some national calamity, but thank God I don't have to watch these characters any more until 2012.
They are all birds on a wire; one flies off, they all fly off in search of ratings, more salary, more celebrity, more self-congratulation.
This is our victory not the press's.
And while I'm on The Morning Joe, I note that Pat Buchanan is on the show this morning, filling the airwaves with his bogus, nativist nonsense.
Pat Buchanan more than
any other individual active in politics today, urged the Republicans and Richard Nixon to
take the party of Abraham Lincoln to Dixie and to practice the politics
of division and of disunion and resentment.
Last night, the Democrats took on the mantle of the party that Abraham Lincoln stood for: a party of national union instead of disunion. The Democrats now are Lincoln Democrats.
And the Republicans are now largely the party of the holdouts, the party of Dixie.
The politics of division is not behind us but it suffered a major, major defeat last night.
Mr. President!!!
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