Legal Commentary

I wanted to echo Paul's thoughtful post -- this is a truly great day for the country, a monumental and historic moment.  But it's a work in progress, as Paul says, and I wanted to say just a little about the work that remains to be done. 

Presidents come from being Senators and Governors; I guess I thought the way we would get our first African-American President was that there would be so many African-American Senators and Governors that, because of sheer probabilities, one of the candidates would be African-American.

It didn't happen exactly like that.  If I'm not mistaken (and I always mess things like this up), because of Obama's election, there are now no more African-Americans in the Senate.  (Curse you Incompatibility Clause, and keep working, Seth Tillman!).  And there are only two African-American governors (Deval Patrick and David Paterson).  I'm not a pessimist -- really I'm not.  This is a proud day in the history of the country.  But there are still more proud days to come.

By the way, Barnes and Noble -- your email at 1:01 a.m. this morning about how I should buy the memoirs of the 44th President of the United States -- that was over the top.