An overfull moment

There are so many things I want to/could say about Barack Obama's election as President. But, this is what I want to say first: That moment, at about 11:10 p.m. Eastern Time, when Keith Olberman announced that Barack Obama would be the next president, was one of the most, if not the most, powerful moments in my life. In one moment, 8 of the darkest years in American politics, especially for liberals, and 200 years of guilty history in a country whose Constitution permitted slavery, turned. Flipped. Changed utterly. Amazing.