President-Elect Barack Obama’s authoritative win in yesterday’s historic election proves, if nothing else, that optimism in the United States is not dead. It was only tamped underfoot, squeezed hard beneath the weight of eight years of divisive national crisis and the steady erosion of the guarantees that made this imperfect Union an exemplar for the world.
His work begins now in earnest. And what work it is! The restoration of our national luster will take more than hope, more than a contagious zeal for change. Real transformation requires achieving the nearly impossible: snapping the bonds of hate and the polarization it fosters.
This overwhelming victory for the Democratic Party represents an utter rejection of the toxic and failed policies of the Bush Administration, leaving us with a glimmer of hope for the restoration and preservation of our most precious rights.
The American people demanded this change. And we will all be watching closely as the President-Elect takes these first steps into what could be the sunlight of a new American dawn.”
Larry Flynt
I have two major concerns right now about Obama at: his taking on that nazi Zbigniew Brzezinski as his foreign policy advisor (amongst many things he wrote “The Grand Chessboard” which laid out the blueprint for aggressive post Soviet Union global dominance, which required a “catalyzing event” or catastrophy first at home as justification for kick starting that aggression) and his approval of the spy bill. Hopefully, he just acquiesced so to get himself into office and will soon do the right thing and drop these demons. Life is short and eternity is long so doing the right thing should be priority one. We’ll see what happens before 2012.
Brilliant as usual, Uncle Larry!
Sorry LF, Obama isn’t a panacea for what ails the U.S.
We could elect a hybrid of Adams, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Truman, and Kennedy and they still couldn’t fix the enormous problems that the U.S. will never overcome.
It’s not a “challenge” that Obama faces, it’s an absolute impossibility. Think fall of the Roman Empire.
Obama is a mix between Mc Govern and Carter. Hardly a Messiah. And wait till the honey moon is over. The US still as divided as ever, and Obama progressive policies will not help. He is no moderate Clinton.