The best editorials make you think. The worst make you think, “What in the blue hell was that?”
A recent staff editorial in the Monroe (AL) Journal is one of the latter. In Election 2008 sends strong message to other nations, the Monroe Journal takes a stand against those godless foreign countries that had the audacity to think that this here American democracy was anything less than perfect.
And, yes, a paper in Alabama took this stand.
We’ve been accused by some nations, who despise a democratic government, of not having a true democracy that is governed by the people, for the people.
First of all, I’m not sure about these commas. Secondly, that’s a pretty bold accusation to make against, well, no one. Who are these nations? Could you name two just for fun?
When voters elected this nation’s first minority president Tuesday, this nation sent the message that we have and have always had a true democracy where the majority rules regardless of race, sex or creed.
And this has always been the case. Always you hear me?!?! While we are at it, Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia. And Trix has always been for kids.
No one can predict if President Elect Barack Obama, who will be officially sworn in as president in January, will be a president remembered for accomplishing great things or for not following through on his promises.
Or for banging an intern. Or for starting a war with faulty intelligence. Or for puking on a Prime Minister. Or for chasing an invisible rabbit. Presidents are remembered for a remarkable number of things, aren’t they?
All we can do now, as Americans and as Christians is to remain united because “United we stand, divided we fall!”
Any paper that naturally assumes that all Americans are Christians is my kind of paper. Because that is the kind of red-blooded Joe the Blogger I am.
The only thing that would have made this editorial better in my humble opinion is if the editors had credited that final banal quote to Chuck D from his fantastic”Brothers Gonna Work It Out.” That would have been one of the three or four greatest moments of my life.
Alas, maybe in 2012.
