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Obama – a brave choice, and a wise one.
Today was one of those days when provincial newspaper readers suffer from News Famine. None of the nationals on sale in South Shropshire knew that Obama had won, and they weren’t taking any chances on prognostication. For, despite his significant lead in the opinion polls, many commentators had been airing the view that when it came to that lonely moment in the polling booth, a lot of white folk would find they just couldn’t cast their vote for a black leader.
I have been fairly sure for a couple of months that they were wrong, as it became more clear that blackness was one of the least important of Obama’s characteristics.
