Frank Rich | NYTimes.com:
"ON the morning after a black man won the White House, America’s tears of catharsis gave way to unadulterated joy.Photo Credit: Frank Rich. (Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times)
Our nation was still in the same ditch it had been the day before, but the atmosphere was giddy. We felt good not only because we had breached a racial barrier as old as the Republic. Dawn also brought the realization that we were at last emerging from an abusive relationship with our country’s 21st-century leaders. The festive scenes of liberation that Dick Cheney had once imagined for Iraq were finally taking place — in cities all over America...."
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Other Reactions To Election and Obama's Victory:
- Nicholas D. Kristof | Obama and the War on Brains | NYTimes.com
- Tears to Remember | Judith Warner | NYTimes.com
- Thomas Friedman | Show Me the Money | NYTimes.com
- Al Gore | The Climate for Change | NYTimes.com
- The World's View of Obama's Win | TIME
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