And to continue in the grand tradition of authors showing their asses this year...

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Robin McKinley:

I’m an American. And yes, I’m proud of the fact that Americans in aggregate have just conspicuously demonstrated that Bush was not our ideal leader. That we don’t want more of the same. That how we look and behave not only at home but in the world matters to us. And . . . that America can produce a chap like Obama. Can you imagine him as . . . British prime minister? And okay, he’s officially African-American‡‡‡ but he still looks like a white guy with a tan to me.§


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And while I’m now perfectly willing to go with our first heavily tanned half-Caucasian president, I would still like to live to see our first woman president. She could be Hindu or first-generation from Japanese parents perhaps.

Exactly what, exactly, would she consider an African-American? On the other hand, I don't think I want to know.