It’s more than a win
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Simply put: Barack Hussein Obama won the presidency of the United States. It’s a victory for the Democratic Party, indeed. It’s a victory for the African-Americans as a minority demographic, also. It’s a victory for common sense, peace, hope…
It’s also much more than a win. What I see in the expressions of the people captured by the cameras of the press is not simple glee for having won this round.
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What I see is the same kind of relief that pervades the faces of victims rescued from a shipwreck. I know this tune from the smattering of science fiction TV shows we watch.
Party at Wall Street ...I mean "CIC". Recognize the relief dance?
We finally got to Earth. Yay!
Suddenly makes you think of the slaves liberated by Moses.
What the Democratic Party has delivered is not a simple win: it’s a deliverance, a liberation, a welcome change in the order of things. What you see is not a people happy for the victory of one man: what you see is a whole country sighing in relief because someone finally came to save us from ourselves.
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I think the shipwreck analogy is really apt. & if you read international columns, it really hits home how relieved the rest of the world is, too.