Obama's thank-you notes

By GottaLaff

Colbert I. King says that President-elect Obama should write a few thank you notes:

1. Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine. The allegiance of Obama's Democratic party allies should be measured against the standard: "BATK" (Before or After Tim Kaine.)
2. Bill and Hillary Clinton. Obama could not have asked more of the Clintons. [...] [T]hey went all-out for Obama [Plus...] Obama wouldn't be set to become the nation's 44th president were it not for the toughening-up he got from the Clintons in the primaries. [...] By the time Obama locked horns with the GOP attack machine, he was battle-tested.
3. The debates elevated Obama's presidential stature -- and took McCain down a peg or two.
4. The Rev. Jeremiah Alvesta Wright. In Liberty Baptist church, my childhood place of worship, I heard it preached: "Sometimes a stumbling block can be a steppingstone in disguise." [...] Without Wright's fiery and controversial sermons, short segments of which were repeatedly aired in the media, Obama would not have delivered his "A More Perfect Union" speech in Philadelphia.
5. The U.S. Secret Service. The number of threats against Obama is kept confidential, but I'm reliably told it is huge. [...] That Obama is on his way to the White House is a tribute to the men and women who, 24-7, put their lives and limbs between him and harm.
6. Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity, courtesy of their prime-time cable broadcasts, found new ways to get the juices of the Obama faithful flowing.
7. Katie Couric. [Her interviews with Wardrobe Barbie] sent McCain's claim to good judgment up in flames.
8. Soul-searching Republicans. If the GOP does not become more inclusive and open to new ideas, it could take on the image (not the ideology) of F.W. De Klerk's now disbanded National Party of South Africa.

   If that happens, Obama can thank narrow-minded Republican strategists.

He offers more details than I've posted here. The last part is the best.