As Obama Is Inaugurated Today, A Look Back at a Very Early Campaign Stop In Oakland

While popular early on, that he made it past all of the other candidates -- such as Democratic favorite Hillary Clinton, the presumed nominee from the beginning, and plenty of others, as well as Republican stalwart John McCain and his GOP bag of dirty tricks, all the while with Hussein as his middle name and skin far darker than any other American president in history -- is nothing short of amazing. One day after Martin Luther King Jr. Day, America will have a new president and the ongoing disasters of the Bush era can presumably begin to heal.

What the future holds remains to be seen -- will he truly bring significant change or will he continue to play the republican-light game that Bill Clinton did? Regardless, today is nothing short of historic. People of all colors will be dancing in the streets. Some will even cry tears of joy.

Odds are very strong that we, as activists, will have to hold his feet to the fire on a range of issues, but perhaps today and today alone, America can breathe a sigh of relief.

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