Posted by Sigismund on December 12, 2008, at 20:16:33
In reply to Obama, posted by Sigismund on December 12, 2008, at 20:02:08
At the beginning of the article he quotes Walt Whitman:
Election Day, 1884If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show,
'Twould not be you, Niagara - nor you, ye limitless prairies - nor your huge rifts of canyons, Colorado,
Nor you, Yosemite - nor Yellowstone, with all its spasmic geyserloops ascending to the skies, appearing and disappearing,
Nor Oregon's white cones - nor Huron's belt of mighty lakes - nor Mississippi's stream:
This seething hemisphere's humanity, as now, I'd name - the still small voice vibrating -America's choosing day.
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