I once read that the lesson of Watergate is that the government changed hands after a major scandal and tanks weren't rolling in the streets. In this time, over 35 years ago, there was a lot of uncertainty. There was significant civil unrest. It was not so long before that the National Guard was deployed in about a dozen major American cities to quell the unrest. Still the government changed hands and it was not by a coup.
Yesterday, we inagurated an African American as president. Dare I say 35 years ago when the National Guard was being deployed this was unthinkable. Dare I say two years ago it was still quite novel. And still, tanks did not roll--neither to usher in the coup nor to calm the civil unrest.
Oh, and I do mean "we inagurated." Barack Obama is the American president.
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