Obama's Narrow Victory has Followers Comparing Dem Candidate to Slain RFK

"So it has been for every generation that faced down the greatest challenges and the most improbable odds to leave their children a world that's better, and kinder, and more just."--Sen. Barack Obama, June 4, 2008. DETROIT -- Sen. Barack Obama offered hope, not fear, in his speech the night he captured enough convention delegates to declare "I will be the Democratic nominee for president of the United States." His words gave his party and the nation a way of seeing ourselves and neighbors in the world in a more sensible, decent and compassionate way.