Obama not a ghost of Clinton past

By Julian Delasantellis

It now seems probable that come next January 20 those in charge in Washington DC will look very different to those in charge previously.

I'm not talking about the obvious factor of pigmentation chromatism, the issue that convulsed the nation for both the more than 300-odd days of the campaign as well as the more than 300 years history of the United States. During the presidential campaign, most of the country seemed to have accepted the possibility of an African-American president, with the possible exception of a narrow band of the nation that stretched in an arc from southwestern Pennsylvania across the deep south to Oklahoma.