Boston Herald: Portrait of an epic victory

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Portrait of an epic victory
By Peter Gelzinis
Sunday, November 9, 2008 - Updated 9h ago
Boston Herald Columnist



I was 18 when Robert Kennedy was assassinated.

Since that awful June night, I’ve struggled to imagine how it would have felt if Bobby lived to complete his improbable quest.

On Tuesday night, after 40 years, I found out.

It was a moment I’ve been waiting for. Though most of my adulthood has been lived under the presidencies of Nixon, Ford, Reagan, George Bush the father and son, I have strained against the notion that conservatives are actually liberals who grow up.

The older I got, the more I was supposed to vote my self-interest, my wallet, my fears. Except I didn’t . . . I couldn’t. Perhaps it was because I was never able to let go of the feelings Bobby Kennedy stirred in me, and the country, for a few incredible months in the spring of 1968. That current of hope wasn’t a dream. It was tangible.

But it wasn’t until Barack Obama appeared on that Democratic Convention stage four years ago that I felt moved by the echo of a voice silenced all those years ago in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

From the vantage point of a few days, the symmetry of Obama’s triumphant journey seems almost too poetic. Across the expanse of Grant Park on Tuesday night and in neighborhoods all across America, African-Americans smiled and wept from the deepest recesses of their souls. Barack Obama had fulfilled the prophecy Martin Luther King Jr. made on the eve of his own assassination, just two months before Bobby Kennedy’s. .......(more)

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[nini]

1. great article.. but the comments are ridiculous

the repukes are sure out of control.

[Skittles]

2. that's why they lost

[janet118]

3. It's amazing how many anti-war boomers . . .

helped out in the campaign of Barack Obama. Everyone talked about the young people who were working their hearts out. True enough! Even better, they actually voted in droves. However, when I was canvassing and phone banking in New Hampshire, along with the young people, the majority of grunt workers were around 55. Obama had rekindled their almost dead hope that we could elect an intelligent, competent and idealist candidate to lead us out of these dark times. Thank you, fellow boomers. Yes, we did!!!!

P.S. Pay no attention to the Herald readers' comments. They are one step above freepers. Their wounds are fresh and they hate the fact that they have been left behind.

[A-Long-Little-Doggie]

4. The Boston Herald is the newspaper equivalent

of Faux News. Tabloid-size paper, big font, small words, and lots of pictures. I am shocked that they even had a pro-Obama editorial!