And so it is done…

Barack Hussein Obama is now the 44th president of the United States. Today’s inauguration of America’s first black president on the Washington D.C. Mall came nearly 50 years after another galvanic event on the same spot. The echoes of Dr. Martin Luther King’s 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech, a stirring cry for equality among [...]

Transparency, Got to Love It

As I am constantly reading about the proposed $775 billion dollar stimulus package that is being developed by the Obama administration the word that immediately comes to mind is transparency. At this point, most seem to agree that drastic measures need to be taken, but the extent of those measures is up for debate. Obama, [...]

Disinvite Rick Warren

I’m not really big on micromanagement. And, as I’ve watched the parade of cabinet appointments issue forth from Chicago, I don’t have an all-consuming worry that president-elect Barack Obama is out to betray his left-of-center base. He’s made some good choices, most notably on State, Energy, Education, Health and Human Services, and, um, Commerce. We [...]

DNC: Obama’s Speech

DENVER – History streamed into Denver’s Invesco Field last night in all shapes, sizes and colors. Nearly 84,000 people stood in line for hours to witness something many in this country thought they might never see – a Black man accept the nomination for the presidency of the United States. But they also came to [...]

Obama’s Speech

DENVER – History streamed into Denver’s Invesco Field last night in all shapes, sizes and colors. Nearly 84,000 people stood in line for hours to witness something many in this country thought they might never see – a Black man accept the nomination for the presidency of the United States. But they also came to [...]