Obama's Super Tuesday

After nearly being brought to tears by the new "Yes We Can" video produced by will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas and Director Jesse Dylan, my hopes for Barack Obama heading into Super Tuesday had never been higher. And, just like in my mind-authored fairytale, Obama came out on top...barely.

Of course, in my mind-authored fairytale, Obama swept the nation in votes and delegates, made mind-blowing victory speeches every half hour, and saved an old woman by carrying her out of the flames of her burning home in the meantime. Although it didn't happen the way I wanted it to, it still happened. Barack Obama has not only erased the lead that Sen. Hillary Clinton once held on him, he's assumed it. According to MSNBC, Fox News and several other new mediums, Obama holds a narrow but symbolic lead over Clinton in delegates, 838-834.

Narrow is explained easily enough. It's a dead heat to say the least. But symbolic? Why symbolic? Because, just as Obama has stated with power and clarity in his numerous victory speeches (that, I might add, give me goosebumps every single time):

"We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics who will only grow louder and more dissonant. We've been asked to pause for a reality check. We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope."

Since launching her exploratory committee early last year, and for several speculative months beforehand, Sen. Clinton has been the inevitable frontrunner. Her name alone stood as a beacon of the Democratic party, and has shaken contender after contender from the race. But in recent months, Sen. Obama not only remains unshaken, he's elevated his campaign to a new tier of political activation and inspiration. The Clinton empire is losing its grip on the Democratic party and on America as a whole.

The page has turned on traditional Washington politics. A new sense of duty and civic responsibility is in the air. A grassroots revolution of hope, change and activism has begun, and Barack Obama is its spokesman.