Quote of the Day (Martin Luther King Jr.)

“Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.”-- Martin Luther King Jr.

(Forty-five years after Dr. King’s March on Washington, a dream that must have been very distant to him at the time—the election of a black candidate as President—has come to pass. European intellectuals who scoffed at the idea that a country renowned for its longtime racism—in their sometimes belligerent misspelling, Amerika—would allow this to happen will need to think again. While they’re at it, they might ask how many of their leaders, on an increasingly multicultural continent, have been African-American—or even Jewish, come to think of it.

Congratulations to Barack Obama, the first African-American President of the United States, and Joe Biden, the first Irish-Catholic Vice-President of the U.S. Now, they have a new “nettlesome task”—not just to win an election, but a) to transition out of two military conflicts without opening the door to further inroads to Islamic terrorists, and b) to perform the greatest rescue mission on the American economy since Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Let’s hope Obama's vast potential—his undoubted intelligence and eloquence—translates into accomplishing these tasks.)