can hope defeat fear?

Tonight is the night the people of the United States of America and the rest of the world will find out who will be the next US president.

If the United States elect Barack Obama to the presidency, that event will begin a huge change in US history and culture; we will see for the first time a triumph of hope over fear.

Yet in my view, a victory for the African American is all about the man himself and not the politics. It seems almost ironic that Obama may have the power to transform the spirit of a country, without having to change the essence of its politics.