CenLamar | Est. 2006

Frank Rich in today’s New York Times: The festive scenes of liberation that Dick Cheney had once imagined for Iraq were finally taking place — in cities all over America. A couple of other items of interest, in case you missed them. Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu penned a wonderful letter to The Washington Post: The Bush administration has riled people everywhere. Its bully-boy attitude has sadly polarized our world. Against all this, the election of Barack Obama has turned America’s image on its head. My wife was crying with incredulity and joy as we watched a broadcast…

I decided to break up the last post because it was ridiculously long, which made it a little meandering and unfocused. So, here is Part II: Last year, many conservatives in Louisiana argued that Governor Jindal’s election represented a mandate, a contention with which I disagreed, not because of his margin of victory but because of the abysmal turn-out. I can only wonder if those same conservatives would now argue the same thing about an Obama mandate, which seems self-evident considering both his margin of victory and the record turn-out. And please forgive me and my hubris, but it’s difficult…

Jed L. of The Jed Report and DailyKos put together this fantastic video, which chronicles the historic and incredible night of November 4, 2008, a night, as The New York Times said, in which the racial barrier to the highest office in our nation finally fell as Barack Obama was elected, by a wide margin, the 44th President of the United States. It doesn’t matter if you voted for John McCain, Barack Obama, or a third party candidate; this election, as I stated before, proves something about America. It speaks to our collective ability to select its leader based on…