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Council speak 11/09/08

The council has spoken.

Joshuapundit's National Security Rears It's Ugly Headwas this week's winning Council entry. In particular it pointed to the possibility that one of candidate Obama's statements may have helped bring down an (imperfect) ally. The runner up this week was The Colossus of Rhodey's The real worry about an Obama presidency. It's the courts.

On the non-council side, the winning entry was Obama Victory the GOP's Best Hope at Real Clear Politics/Cross Tabs Blog. The runner up was my submission, Mere Rhetoric's Israel:
70 Percent Of American Jews Ready To Say 'We Didn't Know' When Obama
Detonates US-Israel Alliance (Plus: They Most Definitely Know).

I'll admit that this election proved me wrong. I expected that the first African American or female President would be a Republican, because I thought that the Democrats would continue putting up symbols rather than candidates. President elect Obama, despite his lack of experience and extreme leftist ideology, was an excellent candidate.

Congratulations to all the winners!

Though I'm skeptical, Best of the Web Today, uses history to argue that the election of Obama makes it more likely that there will be a blacks will start to support Republicans in greater percentages. And Instapundit linked to this prediction about the first black President - written in 1958.

watcher's council.