In This Time of Introspection, On the Eve of My Election

I was only 10 months old when Ronald Reagan took Walter Mondale behind the proverbial woodshed, and I still relish the 52-17 drubbing that America's Team issued to the Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl XXVII, but Obama's 55-27 (give or take a point either way) destruction of Hillary Clinton in the South Carolina Democratic primary would seem to be a harbinger of things to come on Super Tuesday.

It will be very interesting to see how the national media outlets spin Obama's victory due to the voter backlash that seemingly occurred in New Hampshire after the flood of messianic-headlines appeared following his triumph in the Hawkeye State.

I fully realize that the previous sentence seems to imply that the national media have an interest in promoting and fostering "Obamamania", but after all of the stories written since his famed speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention describing his meteoric rise, doesn't that seem to be the case?

Let me add that I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing as a potential Obama (or McCain for that matter) presidency would be a welcome movement away from the partisan bitterness and strife that has characterized American politics over the last 15 years.

I honestly have no idea what is going to happen between now and November, but tonight's events are hopefully an indication that the American electorate might just finally be ready to move on from the "scorched earth" politics that we have become accustomed to during the Clinton/Morris/Bush/Rove period.