Oh What A Feeling

Today I watched as Senator Barack Obama gave a speech to 200,000 people in Berlin, Germany. There has been nothing to compare to this event, and there doesn’t need to be!

Senator Obama presented himself with poise, honesty and respect. The core values of Senator Obama, his love of America, his respect for the world and all the people who inhabit it, and his respect for our planet were expressed concisely and with sincerity. He is a man of integrity and vision. I know of no one who shares my values to any greater degree than does Senator Obama.

The votes have not been cast, the conventions have not even taken place, and yet today I was given a glimpse of this country and the world that we can have when Senator Obama is President Obama. He is a man of elegance and sophistication, and yet he honors and exercises the values instilled in him as a child, and which he continued to develop as a young lawyer on the streets of Chicago. He is a man of intelligence and courage, tempered by humility.

Hamilton Fish said, “If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in a time of peace.”