The Election is over and now is the time to review the battle field of the 2008 campaign.
Barrack Obama who waged his campaign not based upon being a Liberal, Conservative, Islamofascist, Socialist or Communist but rather based upon sheer Power Politics is the victor. He waged his campaign using the tactics of General Tecumseh Sherman as he marched from Atlanta to the sea.
John McCain the old war horse survived the campaign but like the graceful General Robert E. Lee will now recede into retirement with his dignity intact.
How often will John McCain ponder upon not grasping the political golden apple of the Hesperides when it was laid before him? If only he had opposed the government bail out plan and proclaimed his conviction that small government was best. If he had only condemned the earmarks within the Bail Out. if only he had known that the Stock Market would fall so much further after the Bail Out had been passes. If only he had condemned Obama's support of the Bail Out. Life is filled with so many: "If only's"
There will be casualties after the battle as well. Those who owed allegiences to those opposed to a President Obama will have to pay a price.
Old guard African American leaders who supported Hillary Clinton will be the first to be cast into political outer darkness. So we may say farewell to Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton who will have to go as Barrack Obama solidifies his control over the African American community.
Irony of ironies "America's first Black President" Bill Clinton is now utterly and completely obliterated as a force in American domestic politics thanks to the election of a real black President. We bid Bubba...Adieu.
Still standing after the battle is the ever resiliant Hillary Clinton whose political base is built not upon race but upon gender.
With the imminent demise of the Lion of the Senate Ted Kennedy, Hillary is positioned to become the "Lioness of the Senate" and will be ever vigilent to distinguish herself from a President Obama.
Fears of a Congress controlled by Democrats have been greatly exaggerated. The Democratic Party is not a monolith. Democrats are nortoriously famous for devouring their young and will not let us down now.
Count on some Battle Royales between an Obama Executive branch of government and a Hillary dominated Legistlative branch of Congress. Hillary will move aggressively to expand her female base by courting the Hispanic vote. She will shrewdly play off the African American and Hispanic segments of the Democratic Party.
Perhaps the most tragic casualty of Election Day is the legacy of George W. Bush. He is a relatively young man so the final pages of his biography cannot yet be written.
One cannot help but suspect that the end his life will read like a great Shakespearian drama involving a most complex man complete with his own angels and demons.
George Bush has come a long way since that fateful day at Booker Elementary School when an aide whispered into his ear: "Twin Towers"
I wonder if this morning if George Bush thinks about Winston Churchill's devastating election defeat after so heroically leading Great Britain through WWII.
_GA_googleAdEngine.createDOMIframe('google_ads_div_BQ_quotes_squaretop_300x250' ,'BQ_quotes_squaretop_300x250');The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult. ~Winston Churchill
