{"id":200,"date":"2008-06-04T23:03:24","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T23:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/feilerfaster\/2008\/06\/another-chapter-should-be-adde.html"},"modified":"2008-06-04T23:03:24","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T23:03:24","slug":"another-chapter-should-be-adde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/feilerfaster\/2008\/06\/another-chapter-should-be-adde.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Another Chapter Should Be Added to the Bible&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse Jackson on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0608\/10858.html\">Barack Obama<\/a>:  \u201cI cried all night. I\u2019m going to be crying for the next four years,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat Barack Obama has accomplished is the single most extraordinary event that has occurred in the 232 years of the nation\u2019s political history. &#8230; The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance.\u201d<br \/>\nJohn Lewis, the only living person to have spoken at the lectern the day the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his \u201cI Have a Dream\u201d speech, on what King would have thought:  \u201cHe would have been very, very pleased.  He probably would have said, \u2018Hallelujah!\u2019\u201d<br \/>\nJim Clyburn:  \u201cI thought this day would come, but I didn\u2019t think I\u2019d live to see it.  I got home, and I was so emotional I couldn\u2019t feel myself. I was numb.\u201d  He poured himself a Jack Daniels and Diet Coke and watched Obama speak.<br \/>\nAnd my favorite line, from a reader of <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2008\/06\/the-audacity-of.html\">Andrew Sullivan<\/a>:  &#8220;Tomorrow I will go to the African American cemetery outside of Chicago where my great-grandparents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, friends, neighbors, and my mother and father are buried. And I will tell them that they were right &#8212; that if we studied hard, worked hard, kept the faith, fought for justice, prayed, that this day would come.<br \/>\nAnd it has.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse Jackson on Barack Obama: \u201cI cried all night. 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