Yes, we are!

Now we know. America is ready. More than a century after the Emancipation Proclamation, a black man has been elected to the highest office in the nation founded on freedom and equality.

In a way, it only took eight years to get to this historic occasion. Eight years of misfires, misfits and misoverestimating weapons of mass destruction. Only the worst President ever could have brought us to this joyous state of thanksgiving.

Imagine if Al Gore had assumed the office to which he was elected. If he had called Bush’s bluff and thrown prep-school decorum to the wind, we might have had to wait another hundred years for a leader like Barack Obama.

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