Generation Fix

The Democratic Primary came to a close tonight in two very different places with two very separate futures for each candidate. Or maybe not so separate as the press is trying to have us believe (more on this to come).

Hillary Clinton: Baruch College, three stories below Lexington Avenue in a small claustrophobic gym, filled with die hard Clintonians, particularly that guy doing hand gestures to Bill. She thanked all, kept her plans to herself and gave Terry Mcauliff a few more days to do his stand-up routine.

Thirty minutes later and halfway across the nation...

Barack Obama: St. Paul, Xcel Stadium, 20,000 ecstatic people swelled as the first African-American candidate to claim the nomination of the Democratic Party fist pumps his elegant first lady worthy spouse.

Senator Obama recognized the strength of Senator Clinton and the historic nature of her own campaign, and then pounced on today's attacks made by Senator McCain. Once housekeeping was finished, Obama launched into what could have been his convention speech or even his inaugural.

His cadence rose and fell, leading the audience from one vista of the future to the next. Instead of covering all of his talking points and his platform, he focused on punchy declaratives regarding health care for all Americans, and ending the Iraq war.

Obama also clearly reminded us that he will be different and as an indictment to the politics and politicians of the past, his presidency and the America of today will be the era of problem solvers.

His most golden and unifying line of the night...."America this is our moment".