To The Mountaintop

How very poignant. Well said Joe Klein.

Joe, what's your opinion of the RNC (through the California Republican Party) choosing today of all days to file suit against Obama for taking the campaign plane to visit his dying grandmother?
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Are they evil, or pure evil?

Oh, see the story here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/03/rnc-hits-obama-for-visit_n_140553.html

You've captured this moment, Joe. It all starts tomorrow.

It is terribly sad.

It is one of those things people try to make sense out of in some cosmic way. You can imagine it as his Grandmother getting to watch tomorrow night's results from Heaven, together with Barack's Grandpa and Mom.

I've heard people say that you never truly grow up until you've lost both your parents because someone will always see you as and treat you with the loving support of a parent. For Barack, it would be his Mom and Grandparents in that role. As he said about his Grandmother "she's the last one left".

Thanks Joe and thanks to KT. I have posted at Karen's and just wish to add: the timing is awful but that is life. My whole family is here now and we are going to sit down to dinner. But the shock is palpable, the sadness genuine and the determination to vote tomorrow: 110% - yes 110%.

Thank you Joe Klien. You left me in tears.

Tom in the Swamp:

If that is true they are neither evil or pure evil. They are just a reminder of how small the Republican Party has beome. Hope it is well covered by all the press.

It is as though God said, "What does Obama need me to do to clench this election for him?"

The strategy, the message, the ground game ... all well done by Obama and staff. The deep well of calm and considered judgment that resonated so profoundly with the American people and won him this election -- everyone who has ever been a child knows from where such stuff comes.

"And now, there is a sense that tomorrow will be the sort of day none of us ever forgets, one way or another--a day of reckoning, in the purest sense, when we will suddenly see ourselves and our country differently, for good or ill."

Indeed. And let's ask ourselves why each one of our yesterdays of the past years have been so forgettable.

I'm so sorry she didn't live to see him become President, but I'm sure she knew from him it was all but certain.
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How disgusting for the RNC. Of course, not a surprise. Yet another reason to not be a Repub. Is there any reason he could not have taken the plane and reimbursed the campaign? How about all the time Johnny Mac spent on Cindy's plane during the primaries?

Thanks Joe -- for remarking on the largeness of all of this. I know I'm not alone when I say that my anger at the antics of the McCain campaign islargely because they participated in a manor that suggests they didn't understand or respect how big this thing really is. I can't imagine the loss he must feel at not havng her to witness this historic moment.

Very well said. Thank you.

She'll be watching along side his grandfather, at peace.

Joe Klein,
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First thank you for the post about Obama losing his grandmother. But I want to ask that you or someone on the Swampland roster expose the kinds of stuff that is said on right wing blogs. All this campaign season there have been false equivalencies given to explain away bad behavior by people at McCain-Palin rallys and to explain away some of the stuff that McCain surrogates have said. A frequent target of these false equivalencies is DailyKos.com. Now I blog at DailyKos and I can tell you that every once in a while commentors there get over the top. But never to the extent that I have seen on a regular basis at websites like redstate.org and freerepublic.com. I just ask that you read some of the comments on this post at freerepublic.com and if it sickens you as much as it sickens me then the next time you hear a conservative/republican complain about dailykos you cut them off and point to this WingNut site. I wish there was a way to expose the people behind these posts so their true nature can be seen by the public at large.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2123979/posts

I grew up in small towns on the Texas Gulf Coast. My lingering memories are of sweltering heat and shopping trips to Houston with my mother. I still remember the Colored Only water fountains, which my horrified mother wouldn't let me drink from even though it was closer. It never made sense to me, not even then. Water is water.

On Friday, I voted for for a black man for president, something I was certain would never happen in my lifetime. It is that strength of character, calm deliberation and intelligence that got my vote -- characteristics clearly inculcated from childhood and the wise woman who raised him. Godspeed, Ms. Dunham.

Well said, Joe.

When I signed on and saw this news on my homepage, I was just heartbroken. How sad - for both Obama and his grandmother - that she did not live to see tomorrow.

We live in rural Missouri and we knows what you means. Most of the folks around here is tight knit - but some of the young folks went off to college and come back with a different look and different talk. It was good cause one of them started the Newspaper here. ............

http://thefiresidepost.com/2008/11/03/redneck-gazette-obama-uses-common-sense/

beautiful. thank you for saying it for me.

sg, I understand your anger. Those sites -- and I'd add LGF and Pammycakes' to the list of hateful rightwing spew -- make you feel unclean in the reading.

They remind me of the kind of stuff in publications once found wet in the gutter or distributed by pale, narrow creatures in bus stations that attacked anything good, decent and clean. Until the internet made all thoughts available instantly, most of us never saw this stuff. Sometimes I fear it threatens to drive out the good.

Nicely said, Joe. Through his first book, I came to have a great deal of respect for Ms. Dunham. She seemed like one hell of a woman, and the love between her and her grandson was deep. She must have been too proud for words.

I'm so sorry to hear this! I was so hoping she'd make it to see him elected. At least she knew the position he's in now. She did a great job supporting him and helping to make him the man he is today.

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