Just a brief note on the day Obama clinches the nomination.
Barack Obama announced his run for the Presidency from the steps of the Old State Capital Building in Springfield, Illinois. It was in the very same building, a century and a half ago, that a congressman named Abraham Lincoln said the following:
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."
I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.
I do not expect the Union to be dissolved -- I do not expect the house to fall -- but I do expect it will cease to be divided.
It will become all one thing or all the other.