obama, virginia, and being illegal
Of all the sweet, sweet ironies of Barack Obama’s historic win — aside from the real President Sarkozy’s speedy congratulations on his “brilliant win” — consider the fact that he won Virginia, where people queued for up to seven hours to vote. It’s sweet not just because VA hasn’t voted Democrat since Obama was four years old. Nor because it’s the state that has produced the largest number of Presidents. What’s beautiful is that it is a state in which Obama’s very existence would have been illegal when he was born, and for another eight years thereafter. Until the Supreme Court ruled, in the excellently named Loving v. Virginia, that interracial marriage was not a crime, but a constitutional right.
I’m loving it. Cost per presidential vote? $8 Winning a state that, in your lifetime, defined your parents as criminals and you as a legal impossibility, a non-entity, a bastard? Priceless.
Nice. Thanks America 
Classic, loved the last coffee post too for those of us who are not coffee literate
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