Change Without Blame

I for one have long - for oh so very long - not heard a speech, especially by a politician, that so goes to the core of things as did Mr. Obama's in Philadelphia yesterday. Blame has never fixed anything, but recognizing where antagonisms and resentments arise is indeed, as he says, a beginning for improvement. His remarks show an aptitude of thought which goes far beyond the narrower confines of the US-American arena and is directed at the essential questions of our world of humans. Consider Being, just consider the possibility of others also wishing for a humane, peaceful, just world of true freedoms and equitability. This speech by Mr. Obama, provoked by the festering wound of latent-to-blatant racism in the US and the puss and pain that it produces, in conversations, in a sidelong glance, in a sneer, in a shrug of the shoulders, in an unfair accusation, denial of a request, rejection of an application, or even a blow in the face, and this time in his own pastor's divisive and bigoted statements, demonstrates that Mr. Obama is ready, willing, and able to address REAL problems and issues, rather than to succumb to the distractions of our world society of spectacle, that he can and DOES think deeply of what is important for individual humans to live together in a society sharing without exploiting, that he is fit to be President of the United States, that he as President of the US would also finally place a thinker in the arena of World Politics, one determined NOT to avoid the issues of real import confronting us but to tackle those issues dividing the peoples of this world which we really all must share. Thank you.