American Beauty
It's nearly impossible to grasp the sheer gravity of this moment. All watched with gaping mouths, transfixed by pride and disbelief, as Obama appeared for the first time as the next President.
It's nearly impossible to grasp the sheer gravity of this moment. All watched with gaping mouths, transfixed by pride and disbelief, as Obama appeared for the first time as the next President.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
So, how did the bloggers on the right side of the aisle take the news of Obama winning the election?
Elon James White | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
The Brooklyn Comedy Company is proud to present its 12th installment of the web series. Comedian Elon James White has a few spaztastic moments after hearing of the Obama win.
Robert D. Atkinson, Ph.D. | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
What economic doctrine will "Obamanomics" be based on? Will it be Rubinomics with its focus on fiscal discipline and reigning in spending? Neo-Keynesianism? Or will it be Innovation Economics?
Steven Crandell | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation President David Krieger is drafting a special First 100 Days program. Dr. Krieger has already completed a briefing for the new president.
Harry Shearer | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
President-Elect Obama is clearly a very smart guy and a very good politician. Unlike the last Dem with those credentials, he's also exceedingly disciplined. Those qualities will come up against a couple of very major problems.
Jan Herman | Posted 12.06.2008 | Media
It is the Journal, in a column this morning by Thomas Frank, an addition to the Journal's opinion pages to balance all the resident right-wingers, that puts Obama's victory in proper perspective.
Alec Baldwin | Posted 12.06.2008 | Entertainment
McCain had to do the hard thing -- to not only accept loss and graciously congratulate the winner, but to encourage the rest of the country to offer their blessings to the new President-elect and his family.
Nancy Keenan | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
Last night, while standing just a few feet from the podium from which our next pro-choice president spoke, I was overcome with pride and emotion.
Art Brodsky | Posted 12.06.2008 | Media
From top to bottom, the Obama/Biden plan has just about everything the tech/Internet industry could ask for. But Hollywood is at a crossroads as it decides how to leverage its usual influence within a Democratic administration.
Richard C. Thompson | Posted 12.06.2008 | Living
During your acceptance speech last night, which was a great and compassionate one, you told your daughters that you are getting them a puppy for the White House. Adoption is the option.
Naomi Klein | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
I was in D.C. last night -- at 10:30 pm I happened to walk past a very stuffy private club, one that as far as I can tell, is populated exclusively by hardcore Republican men in their later years.
Elizabeth Bard | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
I did not fully understand the power of our inspired cliche; until I moved to a place - even one as civilized as France - where they are not born with it .
Jon Klane | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
I'm experiencing something unbelievable, transformational, surreal. It occurs to me that the last time I had this feeling was on the morning of 9/11. Only this time, the towers are going back up.
SaraKay Smullens | Posted 12.06.2008 | Home
Without exception the people we took to the polls carried the elegance of the history they knew they were making.
Mitchell Bard | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
Obama has not hit a home run; he has merely earned the right to step into the batter's box.
Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
"Americans Chose Change" was the striking blue headline in Wednesday's An-Nahar daily of Lebanon.
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
In today's very special "The Day After Yesterday" edition of Wilshire & Washington, Zach Tumin of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government joins our hosts to talk technology in the new administration.
Joel Barkin | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
The table is set to wipe away the legacy of decades of failed conservative ideology, but what becomes of that opportunity is up to us.
Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
We fought. We hoped. We worked. We cried. We panicked. We debated. We held our breath. It's not hyperbolic to say that we helped shift the course of the world.
Jessica Roy | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
Last night, American expatriates and our interested French brethren gathered to celebrate, drink champagne and dance with their necks craned painfully so as to have an eye constantly on CNN.
Jake Goldman | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
A man plastered in Cynthia McKinney stickers poked me right on the Obama button fixed to my coat. "Hold him accountable. Stop the war," he said and dashed out of the car and up the stairs.
Chez Pazienza | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
What we witnessed last night and what we're still feeling the aftershocks of this morning is, in a word, history.
Marty Kaplan | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
What an insult it is to the idea of accountability -- this notion that responsibility for the ugly emotions unleashed by demagoguery this campaign season is wiped away by a concession speech.
Ian Gurvitz | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
It took generations for the old guard to die out and for the U.S. to start growing better people. And now they've finally come of age to vote. We can begin to wave farewell to our ignorant past.
Darin Murphy | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics