Recognition of the Historical Significance

Today, is the day before the convening of the 2008 Democratic Convention. What will take place in the coming week will go down in American history. For the first time ever in this country, there will be an African-American man who will accept his party's nomination to be President of the United States. Even more remarkably, he will accept the nomination 45 years to the day from Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have A Dream" speech. In that speech, MLK spoke of having been to the mountaintop and having seen the other side. He saw and knew that America would have to eventually embrace the ideals that the founding fathers established in the constitution, the ideals of freedom and equality for all men. For more than 200 years, America has nurtured these ideals. This week, those ideals will be exemplified in a way that has never happened before in this country. I am so humbled to be here on the mountain to witness it with my own eyes.

While I am here, I will try to capture as much of the energy and workings of this significant event as possible and describe what I have experienced. I will try to give insight as to what takes place during these conventions and what they are truly about. The democratic systems of government that we are so a part of begin with this convening. It is important to know the nuts and bolts of what it takes to create a national agenda for an administration. In the coming days, I will explore these facets so that you may get a broader understanding of how this process works