Cynthia Tucker - as usual - brilliant!
http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/tucker/stories/2008/10/29/tucked_1029.htmlGOP activist Sadie Fields, an ultra-conservative Christian, says she is frightened by the prospect of an Obama presidency. As chairman of the Georgia Christian Alliance, she believes other members of the Republican faithful should be scared witless too.
Last week, in an effort to rally the troops, Fields sent out a desperate, last-ditch plea claiming that an Obama victory will mean a “liberal tsunami” that abandons the vision of the Founding Fathers.“The country I grew up in will be no more,” she wrote...
...A new America — a more just America — rises.
Whether Obama wins or loses, the America in which Fields grew up — preserved as perfect in the amber of her memory — is passing away. The monochromatic America of Christian prayers before football games and New Testament scriptures read in fifth-grade classrooms; the America of all-white juries, an all-white Congress and all-white classrooms; the America of gay men denied security clearances out of fear they could be blackmailed and young pregnant women dying from coat-hanger abortions; the America of George Wallace, Phyllis Schlafly and Anita Bryant — that America recedes before a new tide. I do not mourn its passing.