Every president to hold office has espoused some version of Americanism - the truths that we hold self-evident, even when those truths are not always in evidence. But for all their grand rhetoric and mostly good deeds, none was able to seal the deal on the trifecta of equality, plurality and socioeconomic ascendancy. Obama has.

Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.

Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning in America.

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