Salon has a nice piece today whereby reporters, commentators, and academics were asked the question “What does Obama’s victory mean?” and then asked to confine their answer to a single sentence that begins with the same two words: “It means …”
I have a couple of favorites (It means the world is ready to follow if America is ready to lead; It means that our nation managed to “push the reset button,” and in one action, revived all the wonderful, idealistic overtones that go with the word “America.”) and I contribute my own below:
It means that, after eight long years, the smart kids have finally beaten the jocks.
Any more?
–lori.
It means even as the storm continues, in the distance, a crack of light; dawn is coming and the promise of new and hopefully brighter day.
I MIGHT have written that once in high school but you can’t plagarize yourself, can you?
Or I got it from a Peanuts sunday cartoon! :>