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Doing What Ulysses S. Grant Couldn't?

By Shawn Macomber on 11.5.08 @ 12:03PM

Thomas Friedman gets typically overwrought and self-entranced over Obama's election:

And so it came to pass that on Nov. 4, 2008, shortly after 11 p.m. Eastern time, the American Civil War ended, as a black man — Barack Hussein Obama — won enough electoral votes to become president of the United States.

A civil war that, in many ways, began at Bull Run, Virginia, on July 21, 1861, ended 147 years later via a ballot box in the very same state. For nothing more symbolically illustrated the final chapter of America’s Civil War than the fact that the Commonwealth of Virginia — the state that once exalted slavery and whose secession from the Union in 1861 gave the Confederacy both strategic weight and its commanding general — voted Democratic, thus assuring that Barack Obama would become the 44th president of the United States.

Lee's surrender at Appomattox was apparently just a head-fake. That must be another of those lies my teachers told me. Good to know!