In my inspired and passionate support of Senator Obama's candidacy for U.S. Commander in Chief, (I use that term in the place of President primarily to emphasize that we are a nation at war - as a veteran of the peace time United States Navy I understand with better sense of empathy the stakes and consiquences of such a condition in time and place.  We all have friends, family, neighbors and countrymen fighting with real guns and real bullets in a foreign land, and one must question the patriotic justice our young men and women are dying to protect and defend.), I thought it was important to share a youtube clip I received from my uncle in Philadelphia, PA.  Pennsylvania will be a very important contest so the dissimination of a message of genuine hope is paramount.  So without further delay, the video...

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When I was a child one of the first and most consistent comments and/or descriptions that I can recall were comments about my eyes.  People always would stop me and say, “You have the most beautiful eyes.”  To this day I get comments about the color of my eyes, although nowadays it is often followed, or preceded by, “are they real?”  You see, I have hazel eyes and as I have come to learn through the years it is not very common for an African-American man to have hazel eyes, although I feel as though I have run into quite a few men and women who share the trait, (But were they real?).  But the thousands of compliments I received as a child and young adult had the awesome side effect of instilling a great deal of self-confidence as it related to my general physical appearance, more on that in a moment.