They voted to break with George W. Bush’s sorry legacy and to restore a nation’s pride and self-confidence in what the charismatic Obama, echoing Martin Luther King, calls “the fierce urgency of now.”

It proved, in the final analysis, to be a more compelling idea than McCain’s “the moderate proximity of soon.”

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Jessy Jackson quietly crying in the midst of the multitudes cheering themselves hoarse, the Indecision 2008, Stephen Fry going “HURRAY!!!” via a tweet from Madagascar after learning of the news, strawberry ice-cream, and a quote from a home newspaper on Strong Takes...I am a happy woman.

Kas.