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...baby boomer slouching toward codgerization, the Obama victory was not so much about his generation - but the kids two generations behind him, the college kids and recent graduates, blissfully color-blind, who spent patient months as organizers out in the most rural counties. Obama would pay tribute to these organizers at each of his events, calling them to the stage, giving them props - and it was surprising how often the local residents in places like Algona and Mt. Pleasant would mention to me how extraordinary these kids were. They reminded me, in classic, solipsistic boomer fashion, of my own generation...
...childhood, to the father who barely knew him and the mother who let her parents do most of the child rearing. But I suspect he was thinking bigger, back to Martin Luther King - and King's dream that someday his children would not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character...
...come, at the highest level of American politics. A black man with a dangerous-sounding foreign name trounced his opponents in the nearly all-white state of Iowa. And he did so because, after spending months getting to know him, the people of Iowa stopped seeing his color and began to admire his character. In an election where the word "change" became an almost meaningless talisman, Iowa's triumph over race is a message to the world about the real nature of America - and a ratification of Obama's belief that this will be an election year where everything...
...from St. Peter's Square, church elders - though not all so old, and without a Cardinal among them - have begun gathering for a closed-door meeting to elect the man dubbed the "black pope." That's the moniker historically assigned to the leader of the Jesuit order: for the color of the simple priestly vestments he keeps on wearing, for his lifetime posting, and for the planetary influence he carries...
...Kloberdanz sat down with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California to discuss his plans to sue the federal government and the Environmental Protection Agency over denying the right of California and 16 other states to set their own fuel emission standards. The governor then discussed why green is the smart color for business and politics. Excerpts from the interview...