Oscar Leads the Way

With a heartwarming display of diversity, international acceptance and a powerful hint of social change, Oscar led the way on Sunday night.

The award winners truly echoed what the voters were trying to say last November -- that America and Americans are different now. We get it. We really get it.

And we want the world to get what we're about, what we've always been about it, even when we forgot. We are, simply and forcefully, the future. Not just for ourselves. But for all the world.

This was a night for celebrating and remembering what America has always been and ought to be -- the next best step toward a better world. Thanks, Oscar. We needed that.

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Comments

[DonaldD]

01:56 PM on 02/23/2009

Best Oscar show in years...I'­ve watched the last 40 (maybe missed one in '81). Hugh Jackman - great opening...­things moved along faster this year.
Loved Slumdog winning - great movie...my only disappoint­ment was Mickey Rourke not winning. I'm still bummed out the day after...Se­an Penn was great in Milk but Mickey gave the performanc­e of many lives in The Wrestler. I hate wrestling and I'm gay - it's just that Mickey moved me the most since Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain (and he should have won that year as well!)

[LongTimeFem]

07:15 AM on 02/23/2009

Enlightene­d unwashed? ROFL!

[MocksNix]

06:03 AM on 02/23/2009

Oh, c'mon now! The Oscars does nothing but celebrate a small enclave of like-minde­d leftists who pose as heroes of the "enlighten­ed" unwashed, all the while retreating into their self-indul­gent lap of luxury. Harvey Milk? Only milk-maids give a hoot about him, whoever he was..

[Craig Crawford]

01:30 PM on 02/23/2009

such a cynic