History’s High Note
Posted on November 6, 2008
“History sometimes hits a high note, sweet and soaring, clean and clear, as if from Satchmo’s horn.”
Dayan Jayatilleka - Diplomat to the UN from Sri Lanka
I was optimistic that the election of Barack Obama would be a world-changing event, but I didn’t realize that the celebrations in the US and many countries around the world would rival New Years Eve. We got an email this morning from a friend who had moved to Australia extolling her new pride in being an American. Most telling was across San Francisco Bay from us in Berkeley, otherwise known as The People’s Republic of Berkeley for its often dizzying lean to the left. They were flying American flags in a place where burning them was once de rigeur. And, ironically, a friend and staunch Bush supporter this morning forwarded me an essay by a Sri Lankan UN diplomat and political science professor that gave me goosebumps about a new world of possibilities.
From The Island Features- Barak Obama, History’s High Note
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