Barack Obama has been assured of winning the Democratic presidential nomination since February, but only last night secured sufficient delegates to officially end the race. Obama’s victory speech brought forth a level of hope and excitement that quite possibly has not been seen in the Democratic Party since that fateful night of June 5, 1968, when Robert Kennedy stood before an adoring crowd at Los Angeles’ Ambassador Hotel announcing his victory in the California primary and vowing to take his fight for the nomination “on to Chicago.” Kennedy’s killing took the United States on a forty-year wrong turn, and Obama now has the opportunity to return this nation toward the path of social and economic justice. I wrote back on November 20, 2006 that 2008 was “Barack Obama’s time,” and he has far exceeded expectations in restoring faith in a new direction for this nation.