Just watched the latest in a series of events that has featured the historical place of empathy and pragmatic idealism.  The power the Obama campaign tapped to win this most recent election.  And as Barack detailed, the same power that won WW II.

The Cairo speech was the magnificent start of this presidential tour.  It moved the world using the whole media, including social networking.

Then the Buchenwald event, with Ellie Weisel speaking directly to personal history.  Imagine your father dying in the bunk just above you, calling out for you, and being too afraid to even move, terrorized. isn't that real terror? 

Let US all remember what real fear and terror are about, and try to live up to our forebears who faced it down in factories, on farms, and battlefields. Give US another chance to rise to the ocasion Barack.

Obama knows we can do it.  Stop oil war, climate disaster, and economic pain with the arsenal of democracy.  No war manufacturing this time around, just a huge wave of new energy economy jobs, restoring hope for a brighter future.