NPR’s Talk of the Nation on Tuesday afternoon at times almost sounded like a parody–like how a conservative would lampoon this taxpayer-funded sandbox of political correctness. “Kristin from San Jose” called in to share her thoughts on the Obamathon:

KRISTIN: I’m a white woman and I watched it with my black wife and our mixed son, who sat in my lap, and the two of us cried like babies. And my seven-year-old looked up at me and said — you know, looked at me like, why are you crying? And I said, well, anyone could be president, baby. You could be president. He’s mixed like you. And he just looked at me like, yeah?
NEAL CONAN, NPR: As if that was nothing special.
KRISTIN: Exactly. And I thought — you know, I thought to myself, you know what? Good. You know, the next generation, this is no big deal. This is how it is. And I thought that was just great.
CONAN: Michel Martin, the next generation of course, will not think this was — they’ll read about it in their history books, but nevertheless, this will not have the same — quite the same impact.
MICHEL MARTIN, NPR: No, it will not. And I think this is one of the things about today. It’s a day to celebrate, but it is a day that I think will soon become history. And that’s one of the things that’s going to be remarkable about it. But the caller reminds me of other barriers yet to fall. We have not had a woman — we had a woman in striking distance of this office. We have not — unlike many other western industrialized countries had, and developing countries — had a woman chief executive. And of course, there’s the continuing question of equality for same-gender living individuals and the kinds of place that they will have in our society. So, it is a reminder that there are barriers yet to fall.