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Editorials - The Day After
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com —
... : "This is one of those moments in history when it is worth pausing to reflect on the basic facts:" Wall Street Journal : "Hearty congratulations to President-elect Barack Obama. The American electorate has handed him and his fellow Democrats the kind of sweeping victory they haven't had since at least 1976 and in certain respects since 1964. We'll now find out if the Democratic Party has learned anything since the last two times it held all the levers of power in Washington." ...
Obama Victory Reactions In The Media: Shock And Awe
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... improve America's standing in the world, ending such noxious practices as torture and indefinite detention with minimal review that have diminished this country in the eyes of its allies. He has the opportunity finally to set the country on a path to help reduce global warming. He has far-reaching plans on energy, health care and education, but also a realistic understanding that the state of the economy will delimit his ambitions.
Even Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal offered Obama "hearty congratulations" in its editorial.
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Obama Victory Reactions In The Media: Shock And Awe
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... improve America's standing in the world, ending such noxious practices as torture and indefinite detention with minimal review that have diminished this country in the eyes of its allies. He has the opportunity finally to set the country on a path to help reduce global warming. He has far-reaching plans on energy, health care and education, but also a realistic understanding that the state of the economy will delimit his ambitions.
Even Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal offered Obama "hearty congratulations" in its editorial.
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Mark Winston Griffith: Wall Street Journal: Racism is a Myth
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... The voting booths hadn't even cooled down from last night's historic election, before the Wall Street Journal exploited the moment by not only suggesting that "racism as a barrier to achievement" will no longer exist now that a black man has been elected, but by actually declaring that these barriers were a "myth" in the first place. I guess it took a stubborn stronghold of white, male, corporate privilege, where black achievement is the exception, not the rule, to make such a claim. ...
Responsible
Talking Points Memo —
WSJ: Obama has special responsibility to get blacks to stop complaining about racism.
