This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease - Robert F. Kennedy, Day of Affirmation Address

It all seems to be unraveling now, as the hysteria of Barack Hussein Obama has finally hit the left. The gnashing of teeth that began with a rejection of public finance, grew to grumbles with the appeal to faith based initiatives, has now peaked to a roar of moral outrage from the left over FISA compromises. Even former ESPN anchor Keith Olbermann took time for a special comment lecturing the "Junior Senator." The second largest group within the Senator's own internet community, started by a University of Virginia law student, demands return of donations and assails the Harvard Law graduates' apparent retreat on the issue of Telecomm immunity.

But on his website built by a team of intelligent developers and the Honorable Senator from Illinois' own vision of community building, the dissension is allowed to flourish. The possibility is real that helping faith based schooling and school vouchers could help the poor, and particularly poor blacks, achieve a better quality of education. Even Oblermann, with dramatic camera shifts and all, admits in the same special comment that Obama may see the far reaching implications, and understand the law of this bill well enough to know, that FISA would not ban any criminal accountability to the telecomms and may yet enable a President Obama to investigate, with his own justice department, the high crimes and treason of the current administration.

It was not very long ago that a breath of fresh air was blown into our collective conscious.  We marveled at the youthful Senator's ability to inspire us and even laughed at times he outsmarted us, as we watched the surprise defeat of the Clinton machine, by what we saw and felt was our own voices being heard. America, for all the right reasons, was once again at the front page of newspapers all over the world. It is time to put an end to our culture of fear. We must understand that not every ambition can be implemented overnight. The government stands more corrupt, more invasive, more exploited than maybe any before it and, in the end, our means are justified if we wish to wrestle the power of this nation out of the hands of the policies that have hurt so many people from all areas of the United States. If this is truly our time, we can perhaps rejoice in the notion that the Obama campaign can be so financially fueled by an Army of average Americans, sacrificing what they can to a movement they believe in. The idea that we the people can change the world once again, is both beautiful and exciting. That in a wave of mutual movement, from all races and creeds and religions, from all classes, from all corners of this great society, we can tear down the old powers of Washington that have failed us too many times. The hard work and firm faith in our abilities as a country, put us on the precipice of great change in the face of greater challenges.

These moments give us pause for uncertainty, that our doubts in our ability to change the halls of Capitol Hill are still real. We have been lied to before, by men and women, who have played to our hearts, our ideals, our hope for community, only to turn their backs once our wills propelled them to office. We must be ready for a long national reconstruction from the pain and fear of the last eight years.  We must remain vigilant, as we watch with persistence and pride, at the first steps being taken in a new chapter of American history, one whose beginning and conclusion are unknown, but what we hope, is not its last.  For now all  we can do is believe again, if only for a little while, that the highest of our dreams can still be achieved. That in this movement of action with an imperfect candidate, we may find our last best hope for peace and progress in our time. Great leadership carries with it a responsibility to those less fortunate, those less privileged, those forced to scratch tooth and nail for a voice in our society. It is to our fellow Americans, whom public servants must swear to protect, it is to global societies struggling for peace or a place at the table, which we must dedicate ourselves. But if we can mobilize ourselves to this common cause, behind a common candidate, we can carve out a healthy place in society, for not just our own citizens and children, but for our fellow men and women around the world in a noble effort to confront the problems that threaten our very ways of life.