The Victory We Can All Share

Last night perhaps the most important election since Abraham Lincoln took place, and it has changed the course of a tragic history, to one of hope and a reinstatement of our national integrity.

The installment of Barack Obama has instilled in us a sense of worldly re-engagement. Where victory celebrations are tempered with the need to seek unity, compromise and trust with one another. Where religion must give respect to science, and science must give respect to religion.

Of course, John McCain told his crowd of rumormongers, bigots, character assassins, red necks, along with all the other morally unconscious, that the good fight was made for the betterment of a nation. However, I must respectfully disagree. The good fight was made for the good of a planet, and all creatures great and small who live upon it.

Sarah Palin will return with her brood to Wasilla and the fabulous land of wolf-shooting nincompoops. There, she will no doubt prove often that she hasn't sense enough to find an exit in a burning building. Still, I wish her, along with her brood well. I just hope she stays as far away from us as possible. Sanity has a way of focusing our attention to the little details, and those belonging to her...are an insult to decency and common sense.

However, she and John McCain should be thanked for one thing, when they highlighted Abe Lincoln's famous aphorism about fooling some of the people some of the time, but not all the people all the time. We should thank them for that. It comes late in the day, considering what a bunch of criminals have already done to our nation, but then better late than never.

Thus, Barack Obama,  and the Democratic Congress  took the election not by a landslide, but by a tidal wave. Not limping across the finish line, but flying across it like a jet. So here it is. Victory. Common Sense. Hope. Joy. Reconciliation. Logic. Moreover, in the days following, the world will find itself in a better place, and the planet will breathe easier than it had for generations.

Of course, we must be made aware of the daunting work ahead, but I think then that the rewards will be all the sweeter.