Didn’t realize this, but just learned that the date Sen. Obama will accept the Democratic nomination is the 45th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech.
Is this mere synchonicity and coincidence or was there something in the works to take advantage of the date to buoy Obama’s candidacy? Before you go all conspiracy theory, please note the convention’s date was set Nov. 4, 2005; Obama announced his candidacy on Feb. 10, 2007. (He’d won his U.S. Senate seat in November 2004.)
Surely the iconography of that important date in the Civil Rights Movement will add synergy to this key moment in Obama’s candidacy. And as Americans, we should all celebrate the synchronicity of the moment. Dr. King would rejoice that not only a black man but a woman, too, was a top candidate in this presidential election.
In other news…
Supporters of Obama can receive an e-mail or text alert the minute he announces his candidate for vice president. I’m placing bets it’s Bill Richardson. If Obama wants to go the complete “Change” route, adding another white man might lose some luster for the campaign. Of course Hillary would fit the bill, has better name recognition and that other little quality EXPERIENCE, but obviously the DNC is Hillary-blind…
