Work in progress

My apologies for not posting over the last couple weeks.

The recent cartoon controversy raised by the New York Post illustrates the need to carefully consider what occurred on Nov. 4, 2008. Change brought Barack Obama but it was not because the entire American society had changed. Obama's election only demonstrated that we had achieved enough of a critical mass to begin the journey to the true nationhood envisioned by our founding fathers.

If we attempt to go through the Obama presidency as if there is no Obama presidency then at the end of the Obama presidency we will return to the world that was before the Obama presidency. This is why it is important to emphasize the obvious; that Obama's election was not just the election of a new politician. That happens every four years on the regular schedule. Obama's election must be seen for what it is; the attempted emergence of a new electorate. That attempt at rebirth can be aborted if we treat it as if it never happened. So far, this is exactly what we have been doing.