Obama Elected the 44th President of the United States

It's a new day in America!

My dad shared this insightful column from the Washington Post with me today. Richard Cohen today argued that the winner in today's election if things went as expected (which they have) was going to be LBJ.

When he signed the epochal Civil Rights Act of 1964, Johnson knew he was also signing away the South and, with it, much of the white vote elsewhere as well. "We have lost the South for a generation," he supposedly said back then. For that generation, time's up.

Barack Obama is often called a transformational figure, and this election, it then follows, is a transformational one. I beg to quibble. Barack Obama is a confirmational figure, and this election confirms what has been gradually occurring in American society ever since that July day when Johnson virtually outlawed most forms of racial segregation in America. We've been transforming ever since.

Change doesn't happen over night. But change does happen. Sometimes you just have to do the right thing and wait for events to unfold. I'm glad that I was around to see this change come about.