Obama Victory

I have two sons — one nearly six years old, and the other 11 months old — and I want to leave them a country and and world in much better shape than it is now. I want a chance for them to live in a country where they have a chance to become whatever their talents and abilities place within their reach. Last night, that world came within their reach, and perhaps within ours too.

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The day after Election Day is always a time for reflection (and coffee, Pepto, wheat toast, and whatever other concoctions cure a hangover). In my lifetime, none has ever been as nationally momentous as November 4, 2008. more »

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Americans wake today to a new dawn, a new possibility.

You don't have to drink the Kool-Aid to appreciate how extraordinary this is. We will look at one another with new eyes. We are a better, bigger, more generous, more optimistic people than many—particularly Karl Rove's acolytes in the McCain campaign—assumed.

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We've earned the right to spend a few days basking in this well-earned glow. But let's not get complacent, either. The very fact that we won also brings us to a fresh moment of reckoning. We are no longer the loyal opposition; we are now the people in charge. And our next act of transformation will be to come to terms with that fact.

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