Friend (and fellow slogger through law school) Glomar has canceled her hypothetical subscription to the New Yorker over their recent cover. They’re currently trying to hash out the difference between satire and ham-handed racism at her Livejournal.
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Sore Losers
November 5th, 2008 by Oskar Kennedy
John McCain’s concession speech was classy, respectful and, I think, sincere. He clearly grasps the historic importance of this election. He really does seem to mean it when he expresses his admiration for Barack Obama, and when he asks his supporters to offer the President Elect their goodwill.
The spectators who booed when McCain told them he’d called Obama to concede? Yeah, they’re douchebags.
Then again, McCain and Palin cultivated that atmosphere in their campaign rallies. I suppose I’m less surprised, than I wish I was surprised. It just seems a shame that when, finally, the rancor and bitterness had supposedly ebbed for a moment, that McCain’s supporters couldn’t concede as graciously as their candidate.
The End Of The Beginning
November 5th, 2008 by Oskar Kennedy
Senator Barack Obama is now President Elect Barack Obama. The very definition of schadenfreude is watching Karl Rove on Fox News, talking about how great it is that civil rights in America have advanced so far. (I was hoping to stay up until Brit Hume said “landslide,” but I faded fast after midnight.) It was long, and hard fought, and we won big.
Now, the really hard work starts.
We cannot, CAN NOT, falter now. We proved that we can rally behind a candidate. Now we have to work just as hard to prove that we can rally behind our shared ideals. We have to hold our new President, and the newly expanded majorities in the Congress, accountable to the promises they made, and the faith that we have invested in them. We have to show the skeptics that we can do better than the status quo. We have to grasp this historic opportunity, and we must do everything we can to make sure that our new government does not squander it.
So celebrate. Take some time to relax, to decompress, to unclench. We don’t have to worry about losing the election anymore, and it’s an amazing feeling. Just remember that winning battles is, if not easy, at least not the hardest thing ever. Holding the territory you’ve won, and making it productive, is far more challenging.
When Barack Obama is sworn in as President on January 20th, 2009, we must be ready to stand with him, and to demand that he govern the way he promised us he would. We made history last night. Now we must take responsibility for it. I am, for the first time in a long time, optimistic that we can do just that.
