Word: historicization
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Remember this day, parents told their children as they took them out of school to go see an African-American candidate make history. An election in one of the world's oldest democracies looked like the kind they hold in brand-new ones, when citizens finally come out and dance...
It was just one of many ironies that his historic ascent required blocking Clinton's. Experience can be a virtue, but it also means familiarity and wounds and scars, and it was hard to look at her onstage - her husband behind her, his gears visibly spinning - and see her as...
We get the leaders we deserve. And if we lift them up and then cut them off, refuse to follow unless they are taking us to Disneyland, then no President, however eloquent, however historic his mandate or piercing his sense of what needs to be done, can take us where...
There were a lot of things. McCain was the story they had covered. He was a 2000 news story. [There was] a talented young guy. And then I think, a natural part of it, a lot of people want to [push forward] Civil Rights, something that gets America past the...
Obviously, he wanted to be gracious, he wanted to recognize the historic significance I talked about. He specifically wanted to mention Obama's grandmother. He wanted some line in there saying racial injustice still has the power to wound. And he wanted to call the country to come together.