>CB: Does Butler have Reverse Schadenfreude ?
A friend I sent this to asked a similar question. I asked him, and now I'm asking you, did you miss this part?
>Very few of us are immune to the exhilaration of this time. My
>friends on the left write to me that they feel something akin to
>"redemption" or that "the country has been returned to us" or that
>"we finally have one of us in the White House." Of course, like
>them, I discover myself feeling overwhelmed with disbelief and
>excitement throughout the day, since the thought of having the
>regime of George W. Bush over and gone is an enormous relief. And
>the thought of Obama, a thoughtful and progressive black candidate,
>shifts the historical ground, and we feel that cataclysm as it
>produces a new terrain.