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What does Obama's victory mean? - War Room - Salon.com
I solicited a platoon of reporters, bloggers, commentators, academics and policy wonks on what they think it means, forcing them to winnow down their answers to a single sentence that begins with the same two words: "It means ..." Here are more than three dozen responses, sorted alphabetically. Some are funny, others serious; many are poignant, a few are edgy.
It means that after years of splintering divisiveness, we're back in this together again. - aaron
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- aaron on Thu, Nov 06 '08 - 05:06 PM
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Great stuff, thanks for the post, Aaron. My fave, "It means that the voters will punish incompetence, even at the cost of voting for intelligence and eloquence." -- Mark A.R. Kleiman, professor of public policy, UCLA - yoshinyc
I wonder, though, what the same list would look like if you sent it to conservative writers... - aaron
Most of the conservative comments I've heard so far have been extremely positive. That's just one of the amazing things about Obama's win. Even conservatives acknowledge the accomplishment in a black man being president. And it's hard to ignore the entire world celebrating the election... - yoshinyc
That's probably the most amazing thing to me. Seeing people all over the world - even in countries where the US isn't that popular - singing in the streets and holding american flags... Been a long time since I've seen that. - aaron