Iowa!

Yes, this is a food blog. So, if you don’t want to read my pontifications about the Iowa caucuses, please feel free to check out the real food bloggers, who you will find listed on the side bar. And I promise that I will return to blogging about food.

I have eaten in Iowa on several occasions, which is one reason that I don’t live there. Sorry, but the good folks of the Hawkeye State can’t cook much besides breakfast with anything approaching edibility. But they have resoundingly dismantled the tired old saw that America, deep in its lily-white heart, is a racist nation. And lest you think that I am some rabble-rousing, pro-Obama Democrat, be assured, very assured, that I am far, far to the right of most people you know, or have seen, or even heard stories about in PoliSci 101.

I don’t like Obama’s politics. He rarely says anything I agree with. And, if he gets that far, I will, almost certainly, vote against him in the general election (assuming that Huckabee isn’t the Republican nominee). What I like about Obama is what his candidacy says about our country. Martin Luther King Jr. said it better than I can, in his 1963 speech in Washington.

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

We all have read these lines, and many of us have heard the speech. But when dreams become reality, it is a grand thing. I happen to think that America has been very close to that dream for quite some time, but there is no denying the reality of what we witnessed last night in Iowa.

One Reply to “Iowa!”

  1. Well that, and his comment about the Boomer’s still fighting the same battles they did in 1968 and it being time to move on! Amen, brother.

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