Now with enough pledged delegates, super and otherwise, Barack Obama announced here in St. Paul, Minnesota this evening that he has clinched the Democratic Party presidential nomination. There were over 17,000 in attendance at the Minnesota Wilds Xcel Energy Center, future host to the GOP Convention this fall, and over 15,000 outside watching Obama being broadcast on the exterior jumbo screens.
The path ahead for America's journey to the fork in the road this November pitting Old vs. New is one of profound consequence for the future of our nation as well as the world. In the next several years we will be asked to make sacrifices and we will be asked to make changes. Before we can respond, however, we must ensure with our democratic process that the right questions are asked.
For the past 7 and half years, time and opportunity has passed us by during the most crucial of crises: Environmental, economic, judicial, political, and moral. Either by choice or inability, our leaders, allowed to do so by our silence, have squandered aforementioned time and opportunity that could have and should have been utilised to bring about change that benefits not only America, but the rest of the world.
In November, after the 8th year of criminally inept leadership swirls down the drain of modern memory, we get our last chance to enact change. Let's not shit on it this time.
