I was going to originally write about the problems of America. The qualms with the America people and American society. I love America (I am a country boy at heart, mind, and body) but am ashamed because it has fallen off the beaten path from what many hold to be the American Dream.

What is that American Dream? Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? Working hard to ensure that the people following you have a better life with greater opportunities? To open doors of opportunities for your children and grandchildren that you and your parents never could have fathomed?

Or has it been to get ahead by cutting as many corners as possible? To succeed and live in the riches of paradise without struggling through the trenches of labor. To live life without any regards to the people who go through life with us, much less the future generations who come after.

But tonight, I saw a glimmer of hope. That crepuscular ray that was a beacon for a brighter tomorrow. Barack Obama, a man relatively few knew at the beginning of this election has won the Iowa Caucus!

Now, it is only a caucus, and only a small sample of rural American voters when compared to the entirety of the country. But this victory, no matter what margin of victory is still important because its a signal to other politicians, Washington pundits, and pessimistic Americans that we, as an American Community is ready for change. And I, like those caucusers in Iowa believe that we have found that Presidential Candidate to bring about that change that we so desperately need and desire.