Brownback able to savor Obama’s win

After beginning the campaign of 2008 by seeking the GOP nomination for the biggest job of all, Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., was the only member of the Kansas delegation not on the ballot Tuesday. In the end, Brownback had this to say about the historic election: “To go from Rosa Parks and Linda Brown to President-elect Barack Obama in one generation proves that anything is possible in America. I congratulate President-elect Obama and his family. We should all savor and celebrate this moment in history. I am also thankful to John McCain, whom I supported, as an American hero who even in defeat put his country first and sought to heal our division.”

11 Comments

  1. mxyzptlk
    Posted November 7, 2008 at 6:53 am | Permalink

    “To go from Rosa Parks and Linda Brown to President-elect Barack Obama in one generation proves that anything is possible in America. I congratulate President-elect Obama and his family.”

    Sen. Brownback then retired to his monastic cell where he scourged himself until his underwear was sweaty and bloody.

  2. john_s
    Posted November 7, 2008 at 7:36 am | Permalink

    liberals are sour even in victory.

  3. Monkeyhawk
    Posted November 7, 2008 at 7:44 am | Permalink

    “john_s,” who apparently is boycotting the Shift key grumbles –

    “liberals are sour even in victory.”

    In what respect, Charlie?

  4. ksfarmgrrl
    Posted November 7, 2008 at 8:48 am | Permalink

    John Stone, yer still insane, but please, say hey to aaron, will ya?

    nitwit

  5. thomaswitt
    Posted November 7, 2008 at 9:01 am | Permalink

    Please, Eagle, get a clue. Brownback is running for Kansas Governor in 2010, and he knows he needs a very strong performance in Johnson, Wyandotte and Douglass Counties. Take one look at the numbers at http://www.kssos.org/ent/kssos_ent.html and it’s easy to see why he’s pandering already.

  6. mom
    Posted November 7, 2008 at 9:41 am | Permalink

    We’ll see what Sam Brownback does when he is again in the Senate working with President Obama. Oh which way will he turn????

    But I agree with Thomaswitt – Brownback is watching out for #1.

  7. CapnAmerica
    Posted November 7, 2008 at 11:18 am | Permalink

    Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in like when . . . 1961 or something.

    A generation is 20 years.

    It’s been two and a half generations since Rosa Parks.

    Gee . . . it only took 57 years for the US to start to “rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed.”

  8. CapnAmerica
    Posted November 7, 2008 at 11:18 am | Permalink

    And too bad about the gays, eh, Sam?

  9. Monkeyhawk
    Posted November 7, 2008 at 11:31 am | Permalink

    “CapnAmerica” –

    Rosa Parks, the Montgomery bus boycott — 1955

    I don’t know what the Bureau of Standards measurement is for a “generation,” but it’s been a helluva half-century for America and it feels pretty good.

    There was something viral showing up over the last month. It’s a bit saccharine for my taste but is still pretty profound:

    “Rosa sat so Martin could march.
    Martin marched so Barack could run.
    Barack is running that we might fly.”

  10. Jed
    Posted November 7, 2008 at 1:24 pm | Permalink

    Sen. Brownback,
    “To go from Rosa Parks and Linda Brown to President-elect Barack Obama in one generation proves that anything is possible in America.”

    I hear you read this blog. So, if Rosa Parks is so dear to your heart, maybe you would chivalrously offer your seat to one of her spiritual descendants, and then you can stand for something besides politics as usual!

  11. spasmcreek
    Posted November 7, 2008 at 10:42 pm | Permalink

    that giant sucking sound is brownback kissing up to another govt position