"obama" entries

America's Capacity for Change

Peggy Noonan wrote a lovely few paragraphs celebrating America, in the middle of an otherwise somewhat nasty editorial about Hillary Clinton. A friend sent, by instant message, the AP flash that ran at 16:56 ET on 06-03-2008. There it was suddenly on my screen: "*** WASHINGTON (AP)—Obama clinches Democratic nomination, making him first black candidate to lead his party." A…