State of the Union

Some real West Wing action tonight. President Obama is giving the State of the Union speech. His last one. Two terms for our first black president. When I think about it, I still find it an historical shocker that we have a black president. I never saw it coming. I was thinking that maybe in another twenty years we could take another look at the culture and country and see if we were ready, around the year 2030, and not being really optimistic about that. Especially a liberal Democrat. If we were ever to get a black president, I would have bet it would have to be one of those super-conservative blacks, someone like Clarence Thomas, or my old college roommate, an upper-middle-class black person who is as disdainful of lower-class blacks and minorities as any old southern white segregationist, and who are true servants of the plutocracy. But it was the somewhat liberal Barack Obama who pulled down that grand historical prize: our first black president, and a two-termer. Yes, we can!