An Historic Day

I never thought I'd be grateful to the Cheney-Bush administration, but a large measure of the nation's willingness to embrace a candidate with such an nontraditional appearance and such an unlikely name is due to their relentless cronyisms and contempt for the Constitution.

A writer to the Times noted that, on one day at least, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, jr.'s dream was realized, that a man was "judged by the content of [his] character and not the color of [his] skin".

And on a slightly lesser level of importance, yes, I am breaking with the Times' style editor and continuing the use of 'an' before a hard H. Hey, some changes are just too difficult.