Posted by JumpyPants
For nearly my lifetime, the conventional wisdom has been that no one, certainly no Democrat, can win the presidency if they are not from the south, if they are a senator, and certainly, obviously, if they are not white.
The conventional "wisdom" had nothing to do with wisdom at all -- it was simply a blunt statement of how things are. Or were. Barack Obama's wisdom is actual wisdom. Barack Obama has vision, Barack Obama works harder than anyone else, Barack Obama recognizes that our shared humanity is the greatest strategy of all.
Barack Obama is an African-American senator from the northern state of Illinois. And he just burned the rule book up.