A defining moment!

by | Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Barack Obama is the democratic nominee for the president of the United States!!!

Five months ago, after he had won the Iowa caucuses I had blogged his acceptance speech video (see it here) and had asked a question, “Is this a defining moment of our time?”

Today I am proud to say that YES IT IS!

This is history in the making… Many years from now, we will say with pride, we were there when this happened.

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