Lest We Forget Posted by Michael Cohen

With all signs pointing to a Barack Obama victory in the Democratic primary battle there is already talk of the party convention in Denver. Apparently the night that Obama would give the acceptance speech is the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King's I Have A Dream speech. it's the kind of historical nugget that gives you goosebumps, particularly when you think about how far we've come as country.

The party of secession, the party of the bloody shirt, the party of Jim Crow, the party of segregation, the party of Bilbo and Wallace is about to select an African-American man named Barack Hussein Obama as their party's standard bearer. Damn!

Comments

[Don Bacon]

Right on, Michael. While I have some serious policy questions about Obama one can't overlook the symbolism which you describe so well. It will be interesting to see how the Dem establishment deals with this. Will they Carter-ize him like they destroyed that last outsider 32 years ago? They couldn't prop up Teddy Kennedy again to contest a second term, though -- he'll be 80 in 2012.