The election of Barack Obama as president last night was I believe a critical juncture in our history; and as one of many Obamacan’s born during this process, I hope to do my part in the day’s ahead to challenge our cultures assumptions and prejudices. 

As I watched John McCain’s concession speech,  I was moved by his gracious comments, yet deeply worried by those in his audience who reacted with boo’s twice during his speech. And their voices are only echoes of a segment of our culture fed by the voices of hate, ignorance, and division. I was equally struck by the fact that the crowd of 100,000 plus in Chicago assembled to see Obama did not react with boo’s when he spoke of John McCain.

As further evidence of this illness, the following comes from Associated Press, first spotted on www.MySanAntonio.com :

AUSTIN — State Board of Education member Cynthia Dunbar isn’t backing down from her claim that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is plotting with terrorists to attack the U.S.

The Texas Freedom Network, a watchdog group that monitors the board, released a public statement Monday asking Dunbar to retract the statement.

“I don’t have anything in there that would be retractable,” said Dunbar, R-Richmond. “Those are my personal opinions and I don’t think the language is questionable.”

In a column posted on the Christian Worldview Network Web site, Dunbar wrote that a terrorist attack on America during the first six months of an Obama administration “will be a planned effort by those with whom Obama truly sympathizes to take down the America that is threat to tyranny.”