If you're a white man, you probably don't think about it a whole lot, but the American presidency has always been an exclusive club to which only you could belong. Until now. From here on out, everything is different.
Now that Barack Obama will be the 44th President of the United States, barriers have been shattered. It won't be more than two hundred years to shatter the next barrier. In fact, I don't think it will be 20 years before we see a female president.
When you break down walls, it becomes so much easier to break them down the next time. It will be much easier to fight the next fight and change perceptions again about what it means to be the leader of this nation. Obama said it best in his acceptance speech last night. "If our children should live to see the next century; if my daughters should be so lucky to live as long as Ann Nixon Cooper, what change will they see? What progress will we have made?" More change than we can imagine - and many I look forward to witnessing.
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Hi Lolly,
Forget the color of Obama's skin. Forget the fact that Hillary Clinton is female. I want to see a president who didn't go to Yale or Harvard or the United States Naval Academy. That's when we'll know we've made genuine progress...
(Reagan was only allowed to become president under the condition that he bring GHW Bush along for the ride. Palin was political arm candy.)
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