So I’m at an airport again, headed to Florida to give another talk and have dinner with Ethan Murburg’s dad.<\/p>\n
And after reading a bunch of papers, and talking to a bunch of friends, I want to set out some quick thoughts about our having elected Obama. Depending on how sober I am this weekend, I may have time to do some more in-depth writing. But quickly:<\/p>\n
This isn’t about Obama’s policies, which the staffing rumors hint suggest may make me much happier than Ezra Klein. <\/p>\n
It’s about the notion that, first of all, America has overwhelmingly elected a black man to be President. And how unremarkable that seems, and how absolutely remarkable that unremarkability is. <\/p>\n
And about the fact that a young, ambitious man – with no family assets, no inherited connections nothing except the relationships he chose and created himself – managed to rise up over a period of 15 years and make himself President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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