CROMER: Where Obama Wants To Go
Mark Cromer
November 20, 2008
OP-ED: As a beaming President-elect Barack Obama gazed out at the sea of Americans that had gathered on election night in Chicago's Grant Park to revel in his meteoric ascendance to the White House, the emotionally-charged triumph was awe inspiring.
Yet I couldn't help flashing back to another emotional sea of humanity - the one that three years earlier surged through New Orleans seeking shelter and salvation from Hurricane Katrina.
Despite the striking contrasts of hope and anguish, the promise displayed in Grant Park on election night versus the tragedy that unfolded in the Super Dome and all along the Gulf Coast in August of 2005, both flowed from a common well that now runs deep in America: the belief that the government can - and will - protect us.
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