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Nov. 9th, 2008
Many Republicans are trying to deconstruct the meaning of the Obama election so that it comes out meaning nothing at all.
But Ryan Sager, writing in Rupert Murdoch's New York Post on Saturday, tells it like it is. The Grand Old Party is really a small cook-out with rancid meat as fare. Link
Marty Peretz
Today Africans walk taller than they did a week ago -- just as they did when Nelson Mandela became South Africa's first black president in 1994. Not only Africans, but people everywhere who have been the victims of discrimination at the hands of white Westerners, have a new pride in who they are. If a dark-skinned person can become the leader of the world's most powerful nation, what is to stop children everywhere from aiming for the stars? The fact that Obama's Kenyan grandfather was a convert to Islam may -- shamefully -- have been controversial in parts of the United States, but elsewhere in the world, Obama's multi-faith heritage is an inspiration.
And the president-elect has one additional key quality: He is not George W. Bush.
Desmond Tutu (Washington Post OpEd)
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