Tell me, I mean... That makes you special even just that. But to slide up under the rib of America in such a flash, has given many of us pause. We have vague misgivings about those who rise kingly quick. And true to our word, you as well as all the rest of us, are innocent until proven guilty. Upon this promise we will stand.

It's a covenant with God you see. America's bounty built from slaves. Produced by many, enjoyed by few. And yet even those ignorant men, those men, much like our men, like all men, in so far as we can't see much farther than the tip of their noses without love, who founded this great republic, those men dared believe they answered a divine call. A great call not just to them, but FROM them.

For so swelled were their hearts with the richness of the seed of freedom their blood had sprouted, that they gave not only word, but flesh and finally spirit. As unto the death they labored for freedom, and under that freedom many unpaid labored to death. We all know this.

Now comes along you, sir in your fine suit, and tell us;

WE CAN!

Yes we can, and thank you for reminding us. Now its time to remind you of something, and ask you a question or two.

Do you pray at night, that there are a million Americans with the courage and integrity of Cindy Sheehan? Or do you pray there is just one? I'm going to use her name here, because she has pricked my conscience, for sure. Has she pricked yours?

I really believe that you could earn a Nobel peace prize for turning this one over to Cindy. Come on, you know I'm right. She's done more for peace so far, armed only with the power of love, than you and I can even dream about. I personally don't think you've got the stones to do it.

No matter, there's another way to get one if you want. Peace prize, that is. Not the Nobel, um, because I don't have any of those. You could have the votes of many, many of your countrymen, because while we are American, we are bound to a covenant, we must see you innocent until proven guilty. We also thought, at least some of us, that all in all, we'd rather take a chance on, a bad black president, than none at all. That is the measure of white america's prick over slavery. The sins of our grandfathers stained us so deeply, an entire nation ran to wash its hands at once. If it were that easy. The first black presidential candidate takes the day. But it is a grand start, and of that we should be proud. That is why, I believe, that you never, NEVER, pull the race card out on this country. I believe you know the fraud of racism in this country. Why don't you go on tv and say that we were right to vote for you, because we would love to hear at this point, that you would never order or allow, troops or police to fire on a peaceful assembly of citizens exercising their constitutional or God given rights.

I don't think you've got the stones for that either. And make no mistake, you are the first president I haven't been tempted to oppose in long, long time. But you're growing on me, I have to admit. God have mercy on your soul if you be the devil come to tempt us with love. You see we did fall in love with you, this America who swept you into power. We heard something. Maybe because we wanted to hear it, maybe because you actually said it, but definitely, because we needed to hear it. We heard blah blah blah, and hoo hoo, and whatever. Love is what we felt though, I clearly remember that. I remember thinking WOW this guy is good. I wasn't sure if it was John Kennedy good or John Stuart good. {I shudder to think both} We saw your story about a loving family, the small start broken home filled with love, and your nuturing love manifesting an entire real American family less than a generation later.

Sir that really IS moving, because almost none of us have managed to do that. So we took you at your word, all of you adults running for president of the United States, because that's what Americans do, although to look at the folks recently to parade by it has been a bit of a test.

I think WE passed fairly well. In the final say, we held an honest election, not to say fair, however. I mean really, the other folks didn't have a chance. What red blooded American wouldn't jump at the chance to remove race from politics. So here we all are.

At this point I don't really care what you said, because if it's all you really do, you've reminded hundreds of million people that they can make a difference. That in itself gets my prize. Now if you were to remind them that they matter" well the prize opportunities are endless. :)

No, I wonder about your prayers, because “Yes we can” has ignited a fire in our hearts, and Yes we will is starting to get hot. Don't you know that there are millions of Cindy Sheehan's candles ignited by her one. And for each of the thousands of others of good will. Those who stand, those who sit, those who cry or suffer pain in silence. Those who cry, and those who vote.

Do not suppose that the people of the united states have forgotten We The People are the cause and effect of the United States Constitution. That we have every divine right to rise up in arms against tyranny; do not forget that we have not. The second American revolution will be, must be, nonviolent. It is only through that can we be scourged of the stigma of our national, original sin. Only through peace can we be blessed, and by peace are blessings known.

Which brings me to my point. If you struggle, and fear, holding your head steady day by day, hoping that tomorrow will bring better news, God bless you. If you know that big invisible monsters really have somehow stolen your children's joy, but you could not possibly give a description of them, if you just cannot believe how quickly the good stuff has seemed to fall, then God bless you. You're not dreaming, although by God I wish you were. The redemption of America is waiting for us. We don't have any excuse to complain.

We have about 10 years more, assuming somehow against all reason or evidence, before the latest lunatic in town, decides to finish a war, and God says : “NO”. Of course by then, noone here will know how to read, at least insofar as “LIBERTY” is in a foreign language. I can just see the entire world waking up to the fact that they are starving to death for no reason other than we didn't really care. That's gonna be a fun year.

We have to get up and do it. We need fill our political process with the activists, the thinkers, we need people for whom money buys necessities, not votes. We need to stop moving paper around and stop calling it a career.

If we want peace we must first live it. As we give it to others, it becomes our blessing. Peace is not inaction, it is a kind of action.

PS: don't forget to BREATHE!