Obama's victory a 'shock and awe' moment (Tant / Athens Banner-Herald)

[struggle4progress]

Story updated at 6:34 pm on 11/7/2008
Ed Tant

... Across America and around the globe, a "ding dong, the witch is dead" mood of celebration prevailed as millions took to the streets to mark a historic sea-change election that signaled the overdue end of the long national nightmare of eight years of the Bush/Cheney regime ...

Republicans John McCain and Sarah Palin threw in the towel and conceded defeat just after 11 p.m. Tuesday. The GOP standard-bearers lost, and lost dishonorably, as their grumpy and shrill campaign of "the old man and the she" degenerated into a farcical "Dumb and Dumber and Joe the Plumber" crusade that tried to paint Obama as a "socialist too risky and too radical" to be president of "the real America" ...

Obama promises change, but in a way his election is symbolic of the same old story: A black guy has been called in to clean up the party mess left behind by a dissolute gang of aging frat boys.

The anti-war movement was the base of Obama's campaign, and now more than ever, the movement needs to gather its forces and hold Obama to his promise of ending the Iraq war. On Jan. 20, when Obama rides or walks to the White House, Pennsylvania Avenue should be lined with anti-war protesters as a reminder to the new president that the economy will continue to drop as long as the war drags on ...

http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/110808/opi_353388677.shtml

[opihimoimoi]

1. KnR

:toast:

[kevinspeth]

2. I agree

Count me in from Montana

[bluestateguy]

3. The celebration Tuesday night was like the end scene of Return of the Jedi