Dear Keith,
Please bring balance to the current media post-game analysis of the election that is, in my opinion, not expressing the FULL magnitude and significance of the victory of Barack Hussein Obama. It seems to me that by the media focusing on the victory mainly from the civil rights perspective, the revolutionary voice of the 'people's mandate' is not being fully heard.
It is not just the civil rights of African Americans that were advanced on November 4, 2008; but the first step for restoring the civil and constitutional and democratic rights of ALL Americans was taken!
Please, please Keith (and my fellow Kossacks,) read below the fold.
Dear Keith, (to continue,)
Yes, we want to live in a country where there is 'liberty and freedom for all.' The enormity of the fulfillment of the legacy of the movement of Martin Luther King is huge and hopeful, and I am proud to see it in my lifetime. We have made history and for that I am truly grateful and my tears join those of Jesse Jackson's and others. (And if I were a black African-American, I would have voted for this stellar candidate as one of my own.)
However, this was not a RACIAL QUOTA VICTORY! This was an idealogical victory of much larger, even gargantuan proportions! And the leader of that victory just happens to be African American!
All types of People of the United States joined together, gave their time, money, heart and mind and created a landslide vote to take back their Democracy. This was the bringing back to life of the sprit and heart of Democracy! This is a turning point in history, not just because racial barriers were broken, but because entrenched, self-serving evil political barriers were broken!
THIS WAS A BLOODLESS REVOLUTION! Only in America!
We, the voters REPUDIATED in a landslide voice, the Republican's lying, cheating and stealing of our democracy and constitution. We Americans joined together, hand in hand as peoples of all colors, and said "No, you cannot destroy our country and the best for which it stands!" HELL NO!
We said "No" to ALL those things, Keith, about which you spoke in your "Special Comments," which in many a dark hour was like 'a lone voice ringing out in the wilderness.' (You saved my sanity! And for that I will owe you a big karmic debt!)
I did not vote for Barack Obama BECAUSE he is African-American. I voted for him because he proved to me in this nightmarishly long campaign that, in contrast to the extensive field of other candidates presented, he had a vision and methodology to heal our country. He demonstrated to me that he had the perspective, temperament, judgment, executive ability, and philosophy to rehabilitate this country. He showed the power of organizing people around that vision, community by community! When I look at him, I see a hugely competent, intelligent, skilled man into whose hands I feel confident to place my security in all its aspects. And for that security to be achieved, true democracy has to be restored. That is the complete historic aspect of the election to me.
The full import of this election needs to be discussed-loud and long- in my opinion.
This is a great day in American History because WE TOOK BACK OUR DEMOCRACY for ALL PEOPLES!
UPDATE:
As Bubbaonomics points out:
AZ prop 102 passed.
CA prop 8 passed.
FL prop 2 passed.
As President-Elect Obama said, this change is not going to happen overnight. It sickens me to see that these initiatives have failed.