Are the Times Changing?

Senator Obama won yesterday's South Carolina Democratic primary by a healthy margin, with 55 percent of the vote to Sen. Hillary Clinton's 27 percent. Former Sen. John Edwards came in third with 18 percent.

As The New York Times points out, "the Confederate flag, swayed in the cool breeze on Saturday only a few yards from where supporters waved placards for Mr. Obama, who if elected would become the nation’s first black president."

In the meantime, Sen. John McCain, a man whose candidacy for the highest office in the land was thought dead, is in a tight battle to become the front runner in the Republican party, while former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani appears to have completely lost his way in a Florida swamp.

Obama's pitch is that he is the candidate to bring the country together, but the fact of the matter is that the federal government, despite Bill Clinton's impeachment and the nastiness over health care, functioned with considerable unity under Clinton I's reign. And from an economic standpoint, the nation has never witnessed an economic boom like the one that took place during the last four years of the last century. It has been argued, that Bill Clinton was the best Republican president—he was a member of the Democratic party, if you remember—since the first Roosevelt. How much more unity could you want?

That "unity," however, came about during a time when the Republicans staged a "revolution." They achieved their so called "revolution" by breeding hatred and dissension within the nation, appealing to racism and misogyny and fear. The "unity" that Obama seeks to offer isn't in Washington, it's within the nation itself.

We have less than a year to put up with this man: "I've been to war. I've raised twins. If I had a choice, I'd rather go to war." — George W. Bush, Charleston, West Virginia, January 27, 2002.