The Chance to be better...

It's no secret that I am a HUGE fan of Rachel Maddow. And I take pleasure in the knowledge that others are discovering Maddow's geniusness/fantasticness/adorableness. AfterEllen posted an article about Maddow at the Television Critics Association Winter Tour (she attended last week). She spoke eloquently about a variety of topics, but it was this statement about the Obama Inauguration that brought a tug to my heart.


What this inauguration means is that in front of a White House that was built with slave labor in an inaugural week that starts at the Lincoln Memorial, where the second inaugural address is etched into the wall, which is about our country shedding a drop of blood by the sword for every drop of blood that was drawn by the lash, in this country, we are electing an African-American president.

Certainly Maddow isn't the only person to make this connection - the 1 to 3 million people that are expected to visit DC this Tuesday know it, too. But her ability to wrap it up in a beautiful package is so utterly astute.

Maddow has proven to be a brilliant communicator. She has that rare ability to take book learnin' (Stanford, Rhodes Scholar) and reshape it so that it is accessible to us all.