The Next President of The United States of America

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all [people] are created equal

Tonight, for the first time in our history, these sacred words are true. Senator Barack Obama is the nominee of the Democratic Party for President of The United States. No less a conservative than Patrick J. Buchanan pronounced Obama's presentation as perhaps the greatest convention speech in American history.

Given the differences between the candidate nominated this week and the one to be nominated next week, there is only one question to be determined: Have We, the People grown beyond our racist, redneck identity enough to elect a man who is defined by our society as black? Do we believe the premise on which our nation is founded, or not? Are we a complete and total fraud, or do all Americans have a part in this nation, do we all belong?

Barack Obama is America. He is black and white. He is Christian with a Moslem father. He is Patton's 3rd Army from World War II, and an immigrant. He is Harvard educated, and South Side of Chicago employed. He is the child of a single mom, and the father in a traditional family. He is a devoted husband of a wife as educated, professional and able as he is--and she's the primary parent for two little girls, too (ie: Ginger Rogers did all Astaire did, only backwards and in high heels!).

John McCain is a good man, but his beer baron wife, his 7 houses (and don't tell me he couldn't remember--he was just embarassed to admit it), and his "$5,000,000 annual salary equals middle class" comment just doesn't look or sound like the America most of us know anything about.

This young man, with his big dreams and big visions, is the antidote needed after eight years of Darth Cheney and Goober. If only we can get to what another dreamer, 45 years ago today, said should be the deciding factor: the content of one's character, rather than the color of one's skin.