Barack Obama and the Death of Normal:

David Simon on Obama’s re-election:

But make no mistake: Change is a motherf***er when you run from
it. And right now, the conservative movement in America is
fleeing from dramatic change that is certain and immutable. A man
of color is president for the second time, and this happened
despite a struggling economic climate and a national spirit of
general discontent. He has been returned to office over the
specific objections of the mass of white men. He has instead been
re-elected by women, by people of color, by homosexuals, by
people of varying religions or no religion whatsoever. Behold the
New Jerusalem. Not that there’s anything wrong with being a white
man, of course. There’s nothing wrong with being anything. That’s
the point.

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Source: Daring Fireball