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29 August 2008
Posted on BlackState 29 August 2008

Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama seized history in becoming the first African American candidate from a major political party to become the nominee for President of the United States. On a night 45 years after Martin Luther King Jr.'s epic I Have A Dream speech. Obama encouraged Americans to face their fears and set forth on a new course that “patriotism has no party.” A course set forth by Franklin Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. He told the crowd of over 80,000 in Denver's mile high stadium that America' is better than the previous eight years. He provided the critics with the specific policy proposals he has long championed but the media has failed to pick up on.

Obama's speech was brilliant in that it not only went after John McCain but went after the fundamental beliefs of the Republican party itself. He challenged the economic doctrine by which wealthier Americans are taxed (as a percentage) less than other Americans under the theory of trickle down economics. The theory upon which all other Republican economic theories derive. The idea that the rich will be taxed less and reinvest that money into business and the economy. A theory applied in 22 of the past 30 years has been an abysmal failure for all but the very few wealthy connected who ship the money that would have been taxed to trust and safe haven LLC's off shore. The result is an economic gap between the super rich and the middle class unseen in American history. He went after McCain's temperament and judgment and welcomed the debate of big issues for a big election. Obama asked Americans to not fall for the divisiveness and old politics of the past wherein elections were decided on trivial issues. Who you can have a beer with comes to mind.

The history of the moment was not left unmentioned by the speakers and Obama himself who quoted from King and from scripture stating, “Let us keep that promise – that American promise – and in the words of Scripture hold firmly, without wavering, to the hope that we confess.” Becoming the fist black candidate with a chance of the White House is remarkable but there is one more “first black” to go.

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