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I watched Fox and must have been channel-surfing when these little backpedaling monents happened. I thought aliens had abducted the Fox regulars and replaced them with the most fair and professional journalists I had yet seen. Everything from the graphics to the split-second timing to the camera shots was spot-on.
Really? Karl Rove said "better angels of our nature"?
Just one question: What is card check?
I voted for Obama because of leadership. His specific proposals will weather a lot of reality, but I saw someone determined to unite this country under a banner of integrity. What amazed me was that that little concept -- integrity -- has been so, well, "alien" to this country for so long that its return came like a Biblical revelation. We've been so bitch-slapped around, degraded into "war" on this and that, and asked to grovel in naked self-interest for so long that it finally feels like fresh air of the kind I haven't breathed since 1979. "Always take the high road," this man says, and it smells of inspiration and possibility. The fact that this came from a black man just happens to partly reconcile our largest national guilt at the same moment, and it feels like catharsis.
