While Barack Obama's victory can be and should be seen as a huge,important leap toward a nation & a world where a person isn't judged negatively because of his or her race, in my opinion, his win is much more than that.

To quote:

[Obama's winning]"is a rejection of the "center-right" meme. This is a rejection of supply side economics. This is a rejection of the policies that have helped Big Oil, Wall Street, cronies and those who don't need (or deserve) it. This is a call for change, as wel all know. This is a call for basic affordable healthcare for all. This is a call for an end to the aggressive and stupid foreign policy. This is a call to help, not hurt, the middle class. This is an overwhelming cry to get this country back on track here at home as well as abroad. This is a call to better educate our children, fix our infrastructure and most importantly, toss out the failed conservative agenda that has plagued us for the past 30+ years.

This was a call to take our country back. And while this is the first in a long series of potentially painful steps, make no mistake:

The country has spoken.


Loud and clear.


This was more than a "mandate for change". This was an electoral bloodbath. A new beginning for new policies and a new agenda. This was a drubbing. An all out smackdown - a rout.


Our guy(s) won, and they won big. Very big.


But their guy (and "lady") lost. Their ideology lost. Their fearmongering and hatemongering lost. Their lying and selfish behavior lost.

Badly.

We can be gracious - we SHOULD be gracious (for the most part, since some deserve what they deserve), but don't ever let them forget how decisive this victory was.


And more important, precisely what this decisive victory was all about."

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/11/5/785/54389/1019/653939
If 2004 was a "mandate", this was a complete @$$ kicking.
by clammyc
Wed Nov 05, 2008 at 04:22:25 AM PST