Barack Obama is a revolutionary, though not as the “Tea Party Patriots,” the “Birthers,” Glenn Beck, et.al. imagine. He is a revolutionary in a much more sober sense, which, let’s understand, feeds their paranoia. He is turning things around. In his speech and his actions, he has disrupted and seeks to reconfigure the order of things, making the formerly impossible the given. It all starts with the most obvious of facts: An African American President.

In the day to day focus on who’s up and who’s down, in the relentless rhythms of the 24/7 news cycle, the deep nature of the change in our times have been overlooked. In BarackObama.DeliberatelyConsider.com, I will present an alternative. We will examine the Obama Revolution as it develops. To support my contention that these indeed are revolutionary times, I frame the blog by making four observations gleaned from the speeches and actions of Presidential candidate open. As the blog progresses, we will deliberately consider the actions of President Obama, the debates about his actions, his successes and failures, and the future of American democracy.