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!
