King’s dream finally comes true as America embraces Barack Obama

LAST Tuesday I just happened to put on a recording of Joan Baez singing “We Shall Overcome,” and suddenly I thought of the poignancy of the day.

King’s dream finally comes true as America embraces Barack Obama

It is almost a half-a-century since it became the anthem of the civil rights movement in the United States and later of the anti-war movement during the Vietnam conflict.

John McCain was one of the Republican Party’s heroes of that conflict, but the people have rejected the Republican’s right-wing vision of America.

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