Are you ready for the Obamamoon? If, as I expect Obama wins and wins big, it will not be an ordinary victory. The politics and the world you wake up to will be very different. Obama will dominate the news and change the political atmosphere, more profoundly than seems possible even this morning. This isn’t just one more US election. Even if Obama later fails, his election will be one of the great political events of our life. Get ready for euphoria in the United States as the country congratulates itself on what it has done. Get ready for a wave of hope in Europe, as critics of the United States buy into the Obama Presidency at least until he makes his first difficult decision. And that is months away. Get ready for a crisis in American conservatism as they fight over the reasons for their loss. Together with the credit crisis, the election of Obama could help overturn the assumptions of politics in the West. The easy ascendancy of free market conservatism will be challenged in a way that it hasn’t been since 1989. Get ready for a fight in this country over the political narrative. The Government will argue that it has a new progressive left ally and that McCain, who visited the Tory conference, was defeated by the left. The Conservatives will argue that time for a change defeated it’s no time for a novice. Get ready for an intense love affair with Obama. In the months to come he will set the agenda, change fashions, make careers, alter the culture. There will be a honeymoon more heart felt than you have seen in politics. It will be infectious, exciting, refreshing. And utterly ridiculous. But it will be a fact of life. Live with it. Get ready for the Obamamoon.
– Comment Central - Times Online - WBLG: The Obamamoon is coming
