Today's Election Hyperbole

From The Politico, still basking in their well assisted Obama win:

Nov. 4, 2008, was the day when American politics shifted on its axis.

The ascent of an African-American to the presidency — a victory by a 47-year-old man who was born when segregation was still the law of the land across much of this nation — is a moment so powerful and so obvious that its symbolism needs no commentary.

So why are they commenting? And I'm older than Obama and segregation wasn't the law of the land when I was born. It was outlawed in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling.

From now through inauguration day we're going to have to read an endless supply of this drivel.