I'm sure that we will all be brow-beaten with this historical point over the next 12 weeks, but I came across this today and found it interesting. The nominee of the Democratic party - almost certainly Barack Obama - will be delivering his convention acceptance speech on the last day of the DNC Convention on August 28, 2008 in Denver, Colorado. That will happen to be exactly 45 years (to the day) from when Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I have a dream..." speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963.
Exactly 45 years after King shared his dream, Obama will (likely) accept the nomination of the party that has helped make King's dream more of a reality. We're not there yet, but wouldn't that be something...
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