"Now Imagine He's White"

Do a similar excercise with Senator Obama. A young man raised of a single mother, fed off food stamps, never knows his father. He puts himself through the best schools in our country by taking out student loans. Instead of working at any number of high paying law firms, he chooses to go to Chicago's North Side and help those who need it most. He marries a beautiful and successful woman, one he wins over by playing basketball with her brothers. They have two perfect daughters. He delivers THE SPEECH of the 2004 Democratic Convention. He becomes the talk of the Democratic Party. He soundly defeats the most popular brand in American Politics by organizing people in a way that Presidential Politics have never seen. He delivers the most moving convention speech in history infront of 85,000 people. He is a running against a party that has run this country into the ground in every way possible for eight long years. His opponent is unable to seperate himself from that administration. He is ahead by double digits in the polls in every key state one week from the election.

Now Imagine he is white.

He is going to win this. He is going to win this is a landslide.

That being said, RACE continues to be an issue in the country. The media will frame this as Obama's problem.

This is not Obama's problem. This is America's problem.

Obama is going to change that.

When a black man runs for high office, or a black woman for that matter (Hillary Clinton you deserve recognition here), it will be "normal" because of Barack.

When I am interviewing students about what they want to be when they grow up, and they say Teacher, or Doctor, or Lawyer, or President. I won't bat an eyelash, because of Barack.

One week out I am not pulling my hair out in fret. I am not panicked about assasination threats, or voter fraud.

I am in a sublime state of confidence. I am enjoying every minute of this. I don't want to look back years from now and think about how stressed I was before this happened. I cannot change what is going to happen. But I can enjoy it.