I feel sympathy for the people who are so ideologically-driven that they can’t take any pleasure or pride in the election of Barack Obama. It had to create a sense of feeling ‘left out’ when you couldn’t even muster a smile while watching a quarter million people of all races coming together in that Chicago park on Tuesday night. I am no fan of Jesse jackson, but watching him in that crowd, sobbing silently, was incredibly touching. And then there’s the reaction of people around the world, which is something I’ve never seen in my lifetime. This is light-years beyond what the country experienced when JFK was elected. You may not agree with some of the plans Obama outlined during his campaign, but to suggest that you can’t support him because he’s a suspicious or “phony” character only means that you were one of the gullible, uninformed people who bought the incendiary, paranoid rhetoric of the McCain/Palin campaign. While you were listening to the lies, you weren’t listening to Obama. You should be asking yourself why you were so willing to believe the patently false accusations and McCarthyesque tactics that will become known as the most despicable campaign for president since John Quincy Adams ran against Andrew Jackson. Perhaps, it’s because you simply cannot accept a black person as President of the United States, and you’re looking for other reasons to reject him so you don’t feel like a racist. But what else could it be? The anger I’m seeing in some of these comments has nothing to do with regret about John McCain’s loss on Tuesday. It’s obviously much more about Obama’s victory.
