Team of Heavyweights (Henry Kissenger) from the Washington Post
"It took courage for the president-elect to choose this constellation and no little inner assurance -- both qualities essential for dealing with the challenge of distilling order out of a fragmenting international system. In these circumstances, ignoring conventional wisdom may prove to have been the precondition for creativity. "
Neither Left, Nor Right but Forward (Gerald Seib) from the Wall Street Journal
"You've got to give Barack Obama credit: The man knows how to read. Read the results of an election, and the mood of a country, that is. The team the president-elect is assembling around him is strikingly centrist in nature, a group of people known more for competence than for ideology."
Obama's First Hundred Days Have Already Begun from the Economist
"Mr Obama repeatedly insists that America only has “one president at a time”. But since election day that “one president” seems to have been the junior senator from Illinois rather than the former governor of Texas."
Hillary's Eleanor Roosevelt Moment (Ellen Goodman) from the Boston Globe
"One of the lifelong commitments Clinton will bring to her new role is to improve the rights and everyday lives of the world's women. These issues will not be the "women's page" in her portfolio, but integral to the way she views the world and, perhaps, to the way America can exercise its power."
Michelle Obama's Family: From Slavery to the White House from the Seattle Times
"A historical line can be drawn from these Low Country cabins to Michelle Obama, charting an American family's improbable journey through slavery, segregation, the civil-rights movement and a historic presidential election."
The Election Without End (Larry Sabato) from UVA Center for Politics
"Granted, the 2008 election is not like 2000: it's mainly over. But parts of it are not, and ballots are still being counted and recounted in various parts of the United States."
"Barack Obama was, without question, born in the U.S., and he is eligible to be president, but experts on conspiracy theories say that won't ever matter to those who believe otherwise."
Obama's Victory Ends GOP Hopes for a Much More Conservative Supreme Court from the US News and World Report
"In his first term alone, Obama could have the opportunity to fill at least two, and maybe three, vacancies. His first nomination would mark only the third by a Democratic president in four decades."
Obama's Campaign Makes UK Politics Look Antiquated from the [London] Telegraph
"There are powerful lessons from the Obama campaign for politicians here."
ELECTION DAY NUGGET!
I missed this one the day after the election.
Churches Across America Reflect on Obama Election from the Chicago Defender
"Jubilation, pride and relief permeated pews and pulpits at predominantly Black churches across the country on the first Sunday after Barack Obama’s election, with congregrants blowing horns, waving American flags and raising their hands to the heavens."
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