Barack Obama has been elected President of the United States. Hope, intelligence, aspiration and determination have overcome a disgusting opposition campaign of lies, deceit, character assassination, and the lowest example of the American character. Not even a lifetime ago a black man was prohibited by law from sharing the same water fountain as a white man - now, the nation founded on freedom and individual rights for all will be led by a black president. This is a watershed event in America, a domestic Berlin Wall moment in which the American people tore down the barrier erected not only by our racial past, but also by the abhorrent politics brought to Washington DC by President Bush and the modern Republican party, in which American was pitted against American, culture vs culture, a purposeful reversal of the foundational American ideal of a "melting pot" nation where all are welcome to join and assimilate into a singular American people. Barack Obama will have ended this shameful episode in American politics so long as he stays true to his inspirational words. May we finally begin to heal as a nation in this new century.
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I've gotta disagree with previous comments about how Obama appeals to reason and intellectualism.
I'd say yes, intellectualism in the modern usage of the word (i.e. Marxist), reason no.
He appeals more to class envy and hatred than anything.
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