Sioux City Journal

America's promise rekindled

Posted: Thursday, November 13, 2008

SIOUX CITY -- Out of the confusion and tumult, forces coalesced in catapulting a new leader to assume the reins of leadership in our democracy. Many were shocked that the spirit of America, the enduring soul of our heritage, has now become the embodiment of our hopes and dreams in a new leadership under Barack Obama. In this rebirth of our hopes and aspirations, "yes we can" is now the mantra in this new beginning and the pigment in our skins really doesn't matter.

Many have longed, waited and cried for the day that this would happen. A new tomorrow was still in darkness and people wondered why. There was a need to correct and change things in a new direction as people lost jobs, foreclosures mounted and children needed better health care. Thus a new leader came to us with possible answers who claimed that we must "seize the moment" and pledge ourselves for a better tomorrow. Some needed to rethink the destiny of America, but the pigment in the skin didn't really matter.

The promises of America are to be rekindled again so that the profound words of Thomas Jefferson continue to resonate throughout our land "that all men are created equal and they are endowed with certain inalienable rights, specifically those of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," and hopefully we can take solace in the feeling that the pigment of our skin doesn't really matter. -- John Hejhal

Story Comments

loopy wrote on Nov 17, 2008 3:52 PM:

" I'd like to see the SCJournal save all these posts from this topic. Then when ANY other topic is posted they could paste all of these comments into the topic. This would be no different than letting you bores repeat yourselves again and again, and it would hopefully free up some spare time for you.
Maybe then you would take the time to educate yourselves on a topic before drooling over your keyboard and posting the ignorant lunacy you spout each and every day. "

Pariah wrote on Nov 17, 2008 9:02 AM:

" JOHN POLAKA...they use scissors?! Really!?! Being some one who uses tools all day I would have any number of tools that would work far better.

Hey how do you get a one armed "ethnicity omitted" out of a tree?

WAVE AT HIM!!!! ROFLAO XD "

JOHN POLAKA wrote on Nov 16, 2008 7:00 PM:

" John, the pigment has blackened your thought processes. The pigment, as reading between the lines in your editorial, was the only issue you rested your vote on. Now that you and millions of others proved how unbiased, unbigotted, un-hateful, and open-minded you are by voting for Obama, (by the way, that need to be cleared of being thought a racist is the surest sign of being one) maybe you'll look into the pigment of the man's soul and see just how dark it is as he is using his pen to stick a pair of scissors in the back of a fully developed baby's head and mashing up its brains. "

Keith wrote on Nov 16, 2008 2:10 AM:

" Paul Jackson - I'm probably going to shock you with this, but I couldn't think of a better candidate than Debbie Durham for Iowa.

She would have two very strong roadblocks to any bid for the Governorship though. The eastern Iowa block wouldn't vote for a Governor from the sticks of western Iowa, and the religious element of the Republican party would have to give her their stamp of approval. I have no idea where she would score on their test. "

moron police wrote on Nov 15, 2008 11:44 PM:

" That's it, call the white coats and get the rubber room ready. Paul Jackson's finally gone off the deep end! "