Don't worry about your guns. Obama's job is to get a country estranged from its great and glorious character back on track, restoring its prestige, getting its industrious, resourceful and idealistic people pulling together to do all the things the republic is capable of doing. No one could fault McCain last night for saying the United States is "the greatest country in the world."
What happened yesterday wasn't right or left, Marxist, socialist, liberal or conservative. Conservatives participated actively in the victory. As many of the so-called Religious Right, a transitory movement, voted Democrat as Republican. Palin's parochialism, embarassing to many conservatives, will be gone by 2012. America's job now is to repair things.
There's a new distribution of world economic and political power. American unilateralism is out, multilateralism is in. The US will embrace the Geneva Convention, the UN affirmation against torture and the right of habeas corpus, revalidation of the International Criminal Court, and tackle nuclear non-proliferation and climate-change.
The American people yesterday demonstrated the moral authority to lead the free world. I was blurry-eyed at pictures of the Grant Park wrap-up last night. I was with MLK in the bad times, at Lincoln Memorial and in Oslo when he received the Prize. I was there when Grisson, Chaffe and White died on the Cape gantry, and with the Kennedy brothers, at Ole Miss with Meredith. Bless them and all of you.
Last edited by King Brown; 11/05/08 01:22 PM.
