Happy Fourth of July from the Obama campaign. This is your Friday night open thread...
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The first is that the Obama campaign is the first mass multi-racial collaboration in the United States since the Southern Civil Rights movement. For many of the millions that volunteered, donated and attended campaign events, this was the first time they worked hand in hand with people that did not look like them. ... The second breakthrough is that a critical mass of progressive Americans are learning political discipline again: the disciplines that had been carried like rare seeds through a decades-long desert by the few and the proud that had continued the study and practice of community organizing.