This was the moment

Tonight, Senator Ted Kennedy watched Barack Obama's speech from his hospital bed, as a 76 year old man and a day after major surgery. He watched it on the eve of the forty year anniversary of the devastating assassination of Bobby Kennedy. Forty years after the assassination of Martin Luther King a black man has taken the plunge to serve as the Democratic candidate for the Presidency. He already beat the Clintons, and he will beat John McCain in November. His speech tonight was superb, and his explanation of the massiveness of this hope for change was compelling. Forty years from today, people like Luke Treanor will ask me, "Where where you when Barack Obama ran for and won the presidency?" And I will say, "I was in Divinity School at Vanderbilt in the south, and when he won, I was running a hospital in Haiti." ("And before my PhD, I worked in his administration!")

Ok, so here were my favorite parts:

• Michelle Obama gave her husband "a pound" with her fist, on stage, and then a kiss.
• Barack Obama embodied Christianity: He praised and confronted, - - Hillary Clinton and John McCain respectively.
• Obama acknowledged a "known" for those of us in international poverty and health studies: Americans are generous.
• He never talks about his death threats, although the absence of his children and the presence of federal police officers prove the presence of such threats.

Barack Obama is going to be the first black president of the United States. On MSNBC Chris Matthews read some words from Bishop Desmond Tutu. I would like to share some other words from Desmond Tutu: "I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights."