A post about a poster

Check out this totally cool poster by John Mavroudis.  It serves its purpose admirably – it took a whole lot of history to get the country in the posture necessary to elect a black president.  I’ll admit it, I did not believe I would see it happen in my lifetime.  Of course, now that the reality has set in, the right wing is going absolutely bonkers, and the left wing is showing its genetic inability to accept compromise when the only other choice is defeat of an admirable initial goal. 

In all that I’ve read about Teddy Kennedy in the last few days, the universal assessment was that he would accept the compromise in order to a) get something rather than nothing, and b) keep the admirable initial goal alive and on the horizon for another fight on another day.

The President understands this and is acting accordingly for the benefit of all of us.

~  tom