“You can't change what you don't acknowledge.”

– Dr. Phil

Barack Obama had a golden opportunity to really clean the slate, but as it would mean addressing his own party’s sins and its deliberate rewriting of black history, he would have to show bravery beyond party politics. As we all know, bravery is seldom seen during election cycles, and Obama missed his real chance to shine.

During the speech Obama said, "We do not need to recite here the history of racial injustice in this country. But we do need to remind ourselves that so many of the disparities that exist in the African-American community today can be directly traced to inequalities passed on from an earlier generation that suffered under the brutal legacy of slavery and Jim Crow."

Had he taken the opportunity to show real bravery and admonish his own party for their past sins, as well as their successful, concerted effort to erase them from history for their political advantage, that may have not only gone down as one of the greatest civil rights speeches of all time, as he could have cleaned the Democrat’s slate for all time and given them the racial moral high ground they still lack.

In the end, it just came back down to politics as usual. So let’s get back to the presidential campaign as the left still attempts to re-write history.

Within an elongated, sometimes contentious thread on a website I posted the “Wrongs and Wright” column on, I received the following response,

“I think the last eight years of Bush rule has shown what the Republicans have done for America. When Bush took office, he had a fiscally healthy nation. Clinton had cut the national debt and we were not running a deficit every year. The economy was healthy. Look at us now.

 “Trickle down economics has been proven wrong. Greed has run rampant in this country, and it was encouraged by the Bush administration. We are a nation borrowing from other nations and giving tax cuts. What is wrong with this picture? Even the "Economic Stimulus" package will cost the country over $600 million and that doesn't include the checks. We just continue to go deeper into debt.”

The economy is on dangerous ground right now, no doubt. But re-writing history all depends on the ignorance of those who receive it, and the skill of others to perpetually recite it.

Think back.   Continued...