On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:11:49 -0500, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

wrote:
I'll admit it - I was stunned. ...

It must suck to be you.

If you can't find it in your mean, small, cynical,
it's all about me, me, me, mindset to appreciate
the mind-boggling historic import of the nomination
of the first black man to lead the ticket of a major
party then you're too far gone.

Um, why is it so mind-boggling that a black man would not only be
nominated, but elected as POTUS? It's historic, but hardly
"mind-boggling." Hell, had he have wanted to run, Powell would have
almost certainly been nominated by the GOP and may well have won, and
that was before Obama had even gotten elected to anything.

I was born in 1956 and I never in a thousand years
thought that I would see this day.

You're a little older than me...perhaps that's why I have little doubt
that not only can a black man, but black men, white women, black women,
Hispanic men and women, Asian men and women, etc., be nominated, and
some will win, over the course of US history. And some will be
excellent Presidents, some will be lousy, and some will just be largely
forgotten by the bulk of the population. I have no doubt that folks of
all races and colors can be another Chester A. Arthur...

That was a great speech and only a blind fool partisan
cynic could believe otherwise.

An Obama-supporting friend made what I think is a particularly good,
"working-man" comment about it - "he sounded like a guy who just won a
train that he isn't sure how to drive..."

TC,
R