I’m a right-wing Republican who has only voted Republican (though I did vote for the Labor party in Australia in 1989), but when I look at the election through the lens suggested by TV writer/producer Rob Long — that Americans are casting for their leading man over the next four years — I’d much rather look at Barack Obama than John McCain.
McCain looks like he has one foot in the grave. He looks feeble. His mental reactions seem both slow and bizarre.
Barack is smooth. He’s pleasant to watch on TV. He wears well. He seems far more presidential than any candidate for president since Ronald Reagan.
I’m happy today that there wasn’t any mass rioting last night. I feared it would be like the Philadelphia Phillies winning the World Series.
I walked home last night from Torah class with renewed awe of the black man. I felt old and fragile and had a sickening certainty that I’d say something inappropriate on my blog about the election.
By the way, white missy Sarah Palin sure is pretty, even in defeat. It was with great sadness last night that I removed my Sarah Palin lipstick yarmulke and put it away for the final time.
I’m back in black.
Chris Canty:
"It’s just historic. You will hear this said a lot over the next several weeks it really means something when African-American parents can tell there children you can be anything you want to be. You can look at Obama as the symbol of that. The struggles that African Americans have had in this country from earning citizenship, being allowed to read, basic rights, being allowed to vote. It’s really amazing its almost surreal. You know it’s huge and you know it hasn’t all the way and set in. "
Greg Ellis:
"Congratulations Obama. I think it was a good choice. It was good for our country it’s a good accomplishment for blacks in a whole and not from a racial point of view."
Terrell Owens:
"Very emotional and historical moment. There was a change and hopefully that can trickle on down to our season."
