Early this morning, conservative commentator, George Will said in a radio interview with William Bennett that Americans are ready to elect an African American as President of the Unitied States.
They are excited at the prospect of laying to rest this racist stigma. They've moved on; and it's time to put it all behind us. America is no longer Selma, Alabama. Nor do police officers stand at the bottom of a bridge and forbid passage across to complete a march for civil rights.
We have in Barak Obama an orator, a man of words who can tell us who we are. Lincoln was a man of words, possibly a greater president than George Washington, who set the tone for the office. Will said that though he does not agree with Obama's politics, nonetheless, here is someone who can possibly unite us.
I was impressed with his speech in New Hampshire, but pulled away on learning that he is the nation's most left-leaning senator; that his wife cannot feel pride for her country, even though she is the beneficiary of a great education, and earns a six-figure income.
Additionally, I am disturbed that he would give legitimacy to Iran's president, while cozying up to Fidel Castro.
They are excited at the prospect of laying to rest this racist stigma. They've moved on; and it's time to put it all behind us. America is no longer Selma, Alabama. Nor do police officers stand at the bottom of a bridge and forbid passage across to complete a march for civil rights.
We have in Barak Obama an orator, a man of words who can tell us who we are. Lincoln was a man of words, possibly a greater president than George Washington, who set the tone for the office. Will said that though he does not agree with Obama's politics, nonetheless, here is someone who can possibly unite us.
I was impressed with his speech in New Hampshire, but pulled away on learning that he is the nation's most left-leaning senator; that his wife cannot feel pride for her country, even though she is the beneficiary of a great education, and earns a six-figure income.
Additionally, I am disturbed that he would give legitimacy to Iran's president, while cozying up to Fidel Castro. 
To sit in a congregation for 20 years, listening to Reverend Wright's inflammatory racist rhetoric, leaves one more than uneasy.
However, if he will tell African American men that they must focus on their responsibilities as fathers, and other such hard to hear positions, then perhaps some good can come of this election.
Still, I'm as wary of dictators on the Left, as I am of fascists on the Right.
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