"After the family and friends went home, after the receptions ended and the sun slid behind winter's gray shroud, what would linger over the city was the certainty of a single, seemingly inalterable fact:  The country was divided, and so Washington was divided, more divided politically than at any time since before World War II."
~ Barack Obama, January 4, 2005 on being sworn in as a member of the 109th Congress.

~ The Audacity of Hope,  B. Obama, President U.S. (b. August 4, 1961) Tree Rivers Press, 2006.