Unlike the Bush offer in 2000 to extend his hand across the aisle ... a hand equipped with a novelty store buzzer, Obama makes a sincere offer to WORK at uniting the country ... because it will take all of us working together to survive these trying times.
"Change has come to America" speech, Chicago.
What a relief it is ... what a breath of fresh air ... to have an articulate President who knows what he's talking about and can communicate his understanding in clear, comprehensible sentences.
My faith in the humanity of people in general has been restored. My faith in democracy has been resurrected. My hope for the future has been buttressed.
... and, yes, facts DO have a liberal bias.
The future of the Republican party is uncertain. I predict that the blame for their loss will fall squarely on McCain and Palin. Fingers will be pointed at the ineptitude of the campaign and the McCain campaign's inability to even find a clear message, much less stick to one. It will all be true as far as it goes but the blame for this massive failure on the right will not go far enough. Few on the right will question the basic premises of the Republican party ... their support for unrestricted, unregulated free market capitalism, their belief that raw, bullying militarism is the answer to all international issues, or their reliance on the politics of division.
Until those items of the platform are questioned, the party will continue to fade into irrelevance.
I can almost feel sorry for those on the right ... almost, but not quite. If they have been wounded, the wounds are self inflicted. With over thirty years to "get it right", they actively chose the path that brought them to this point in history.
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