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Monday, November 3, 2008 12:00 AM

"My Lord, I feel something is happening"

Volunteering for an inspired Obama campaign in Pittsburgh, I couldn't help feeling that politics is being reinvented.
By Jonathan Alford

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  • Monday, November 3, 2008 03:03 PM

    The Echo of Decades

    I think the speeches of Barach Obama may turn out to be as important in future decades as the words of JFL and MLK are today.

    "Ask what you can do for your country" and "judged by the content of his character" have been answered by this remarkable young man in one fell swoop.

    My only sadness is that his grandmother did not live to see the conclusion of a story that she probably never dreamed would hit so close to home.

    —DAnnara Read DAnnara's other letters

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