Just a blurb...

I read this last night and thought is was so beautiful. Regardless of which candidate someone might be voting for, this is a historic election. It is one that our children are watching much more closely than ever before - the good, the bad *and* the ugly. Unfortunately, there has been far too much of the bad and ugly (mostly coming from the Republican camp) than there has been good.

Obama is, whether you like him or not, the personification of the American dream. The man was raised in a dirt-poor family with a father who was mostly absent. Food stamps were not unheard of for him...his grandparents ended up mostly raising him. To have gone from those beginnings to where he is now, as a candidate for President of the United States (Well, those of us who aren't "real" Americans still believe it anyway) of America.

Here it is (as heard by someone else on an NPR radio show):

Rosa sat, so Martin could walk…
Martin walked, so Obama could run…
Obama is running, so our children can fly!