"A satisfying slap in the face to racism and parochialism"

Left-libertarian Roderick Long offers some good reasons why he's "more pleased than not" with Tuesday's election results:

Sure, Obama is a corporate liberal whose policies are not really any less fascistic or imperialistic than McCain's, but a) he at least seems less trigger-happy than McCain; b) culturally, his election is a satisfying slap in the face to racism and parochialism (it's great to see a black person at last in the nation's highest-profile and most influential job—I just wish the nation's highest-profile and most influential job weren't the goddamn presidency)…

More here. Gene Healy on how the goddamn president became so influential here.