Will Wilkinson on Obama's Victory

Will essentially hits the nail on the head here.

http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/11/05/one-night-of-romance/

I'm really mixed about this election. My own inherent distaste for identity politics and political tribalism (his term, I tend to think of it as the less condensed idea of politics as spectator sport: emotional, zero-sum, and irrational) threatens to be overpowered by the pure unadulterated joy that this result has created in some quarters. It is genuinely moving even as I distrust the abstract rightness of being moved by such events.

It is both wondrous and terrible.