Unity First

Here's another pundit praising the One for his Transformational Unity theme.  I'm copying out a few excerpts for your amusement.

Perfecting the Union by Roger Cohen,  11/06/2008  NYT

.....beyond the economy, beyond health care, there was something even more fundamental at stake in this U.S. election won by Barack Obama: the self-respect of the American people.  .....

Obama made a simple bet and stuck to it. If you trusted in the fundamental decency, civility and good sense of the American people, even at the end of a season of fear and loss, you could forge a new politics and win the day  .......
“In this country, we rise or fall as one nation, as one people,” he declared Tuesday night in his victory speech to a joyous crowd in Chicago.  ......

(got that, folks?  Now Cohen goes on to say):

Obama never got angry. Without breaking a sweat, he took down two of the most ruthless political machines on the planet: first the Clintons and then the Republican Party. .....

McCain opted on a whim for a sidekick, Sarah Palin, who personified the very “country-first” intolerance and Bush-like small-mindedness of which many Americans had grown as weary as the world has.

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my comments: 
Notice how he lumps together the Clintons and the Republicans?  And what a guy that Obama is -- he took out those ruthless Clintons. And he's such a charmer those ruthless Clintons turned around and campaigned their hearts out for them, and won him the election.  (would he have won without all those won-over Clinton voters?) And how intolerant of McCain and Palin to believe in Country First".  (Doesn't that country first theme hark back to "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your county."  That JFK was such an intolerant guy to believe in country first.

link:  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/opinion/06Cohen.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=cohen&st=cse&oref=slogin