What’s funny is I’m sure exactly what he has shared, is being written all over newsrooms in America, just as they have obituaries written for famous people, all ready to go minus a few updates when that unlucky soul does die. Read for yourself what will most likely be written if Obama is the winner, focusing on race:
Of all the collisions of politics and culture in American life since the Civil War, none may have occurred with the force, impact, and historical significance of what Americans did on Nov. 4, 2008.
In selecting Barack Obama as their 44th president, they redeemed the created-equal promise of their founding document, freed both blacks and whites from the imprisonment of racial expectations, set a great nation on an uncharted course, and rewrote the rules of politics for a generation.
And if McCain is the winner focusing on ideology:
John McCain’s stunning victory, the biggest comeback and upset since Harry S. Truman defeated Thomas E. Dewey in 1948, is a reminder of the essential character of American politics since the end of the New Deal-Great Society era and the conclusion of the Vietnam War:
This is a nation firmly rooted in center-right politics skeptical of big-government social programs even as it applies a big-government response to an economic crisis and worried about 21st century dangers in a world that has been shaped by American power and will.
