While clearly written from an editorial position of support for Obama, the author also outlines the challenges in his candidacy and for Obama as president. But the article focuses on a salient point: after fourteen plus years of partisan divisiveness, including six years during which American credibility has suffered internationally, could an Obama presidency be the best hope for restoring civil discourse and collaboration both within America and globally? Furthermore, could an Obama presidency diffuse some of the anti-American zeal that gives cover to terrorism? This article in some ways echoes Tom Friedman's premise in his April 18, 2007 column called "Help Wanted." Favorite quotation from the article: 'A brown-skinned man whose father was an African, who grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii, who attended a majority-Muslim school as a boy, is now the alleged enemy. If you wanted the crudest but most effective weapon against the demonization of America that fuels Islamist ideology, Obama’s face gets close. It proves them wrong about what America is in ways no words can.'