ToDo #1457: Phrase one of your fundamental beliefs in soaring oratory.
[Barack Obama's] address to the Democratic convention put him on the political map and started tongues wagging bout the possibility of the first black U.S. president.
It included a call to end divisions in the country. "There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the Unisted States of America," he said in the kind of soaring oratory absent from the recent election campaign. "There's not a black American and a white America and Latino America and Asian America - there's the United States of America."
He also thrilled the delegates by saying that "if there's a child on the South Side who can't read, that matters to me, even if ti's not my child. If there's an Arab-American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due process, that threatens my civil liberties. It's that fundamental belief - I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper - that makes this country work." The Globe and Mail, "Next up: Barack veruss Jeb?" November 6, 2004, F3
