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...campaign staffers—looked on in a state of shocked surprise. Flores stood quietly amidst a crowd of her supporters, absorbing a moment made all the more unlikely by the suspension of her campaign late Sunday night, while all around her chants of “yes we did?? erupted. Jolted out of her reverie by McLeod’s pumping fist, a smile crept across Flores’ face. “I feel incredible,” said the newly-minted president. “But oh my God, now I have...
...that successful men were “indebted to themselves for themselves.” Today, the speech is often read as a proclamation of “the American Dream,” the idea that men can go from nothing to something—as Douglass himself did??if only they would work hard enough. This whole Rags-to-Riches trope, says Malcolm Gladwell, author of the bestsellers “Blink” and “The Tipping Point,” is actually nothing more than a pipe dream. In his new book...
...did??what? The only answer can be “win an election.” But I hardly think that Obama’s mantra of “Yes We Can” referred only to trouncing Sen. John McCain. He meant that, yes, we can—if you’ll forgive the talking point—bring change to government. That work hasn’t even begun yet, and its success is far from certain. Last Tuesday was never going to fix the problems of the past eight years, but most...
...did?? is but one example; take The New York Times, which, in its euphoria, claimed that Obama’s election broke “the last racial barrier in American politics.” To be sure, it was momentous, but we are not past the problem of race in Washington. When it comes to race, gender, and other areas, government continues to be diversity-deficient. As long as the country remains hesitant to elect Latinos, Arab-Americans, or others, we will never be able to declare that we have broken that last racial barrier?...
There are already signs that an Obama win is no cure-all. Banners that proclaim “Yes we did?? ignore part of Obama’s constituency that still has its work cut out for it: the BGLT community. On Tuesday, while Californians and Floridians checked one box for Obama, they checked another to ban same-sex marriage. A new Democratic regime can institute progressive policies, but that won’t change conservative attitudes that are still alive and well. Just as everyday volunteers convinced the nation it was time to elect Obama, they must...