“When Barack Obama receives the Democratic presidential nomination before 75,000 people in Denver’s Mile High Stadium on the forty-fifth anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech, new possibilities will be born. … No one should be blinded by the lights. It will take hard work to turn the nomination into victory in a campaign that has already turned ugly. Moreover, even if victorious, Obama will inherit the calamitous conditions wrought by conservative failures — a sinking economy, unsustainable occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan, accelerating climate change, Gilded Age inequality, a broken healthcare system and much more.” [editor’s note: It’s this “agenda” that scares most of us; instead of beginning by restoring personal liberty (the Bill of Rights so savagely trashed by the Bushite neocons), these “progresssives” wish merely to institute even more Big Government interventions (at home & abroad) … just with new faces on the thrones! - SAT] (08/19/08)