Wow, someone who sees past the 'shiny new thing' factor. Well put Michal, well put.
Bruce ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Dinowitz" <mdino...@houseoffusion.com> To: "cf-community" <cf-community@houseoffusion.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 7:38 PM Subject: Re: Last words on Bush > Saying that America decided to believe in itself means that America didn't > believe in itself before Obama and that has no truth to it at all. We > might > not like policies of the government, we might not like its direction in > some > things, but we believe in it. We support it. We don't want it to go away. > We > do want it better. We believe it can be better. We've believed it before > Obama and we'll believe it after him. He does not define our belief in > America, he's just another part of it. He enhances our belief that anyone > of > any race or background can become president. That belief was lagging and > has > been reinfused. But that is not all of our belief in America, just a part. > A > part of hope, but still just a part. > > Obama's presidency is historic because he is the first black president. > The > first but not the last. The first woman president will be historic as > well. > once. Will he be a historic president by policy and ability? We hope and > pray (even atheists) but that'll be in the future, not today. Today he's > just the first black president. > > This is still a minor turning point in American existence, but not a major > one. It is not a revolutionary or civil war, it's an election. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:285575 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
