Even Community Organizers can grow up to be President, TWICE

I remember the mocking tone with which Rudy 911 Giuliani characterized candidate Obama at the 2008 convention. Well that year and this apparently proved that there is something about organizing the community that gets you elected President, TWICE. Take that Mr. 911, bitter old white guy.

All the talking heads seem to agree that the President and his organizers understood 2 years ago that the country had changed in the 2 years since 2008. The color and ethnicity of the country has changed and will continue to change to the point where by 2050 whites will be in the minority. A dramatic change in my lifetime.

Yesterday I spent a portion of the day driving voters to the polls. After all the mud slinging, false advertising, $6 billion campaigns, it came down to people like the women I drove to the polls who at 91 was still determined to make her vote count. She was well dressed, able to walk to the car with the assistance of a cane, and as we drove to the polling place, we talked about her upbringing, in the rural south, and the pride she had in her country. While I didn't ask her I imagined her pride that one of her own was the leader of the free world. Just as I will be proud when and if an Italian makes it to the White House. But it isn't the same as blacks still endure racism in so many ways, while, for now, whites of any background can assimilate.

At the polling place, in a minority neighborhood, it was great to see the faces of an up and coming political force, african-americans, Haitians, hispanics, all  waiting patiently on line, long lines, anxious to prove this is my country too.

Now on to what is so needed in this country, people coming together to solve problems. A 21st century skill that for now is lost in too much 19th century thinking.

Forward!