Friday, January 2, 2009

Washington waits

I just read Elizabeth Drew's article in the December 18th New York Review of Books, "The Truth About the Election." Her concluding paragraph echoes my prior post and is worth quoting:

Obama's thrilling election -- something not long ago many wise heads said wasn't possible -- also made more imminent the prospect that the dark night of the worst administration in history was ending. The American people had overwhelmingly rejected the Bush regime's stupidity, cupidity, its wars, its lies, its torturing and its secrecy, its ineptitude and its power grab that threatened constitutional government. The relief was palpable. Washingtonians were simply smiling as they hadn't in years. Something new was coming, and it was to be looked forward to. People felt cleansed.

People felt cleansed.

Yes !

Ralph

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