Barring a miracle on the right, Barack Obama will be the next President of the United States.

It doesn’t matter that he worshipped at the altar of Jeremiah
Wright for more than 20 years. And it counts little whether he’s black or white---or even where he stands on the key issues.

What does matter is that 81 per cent of the American people, according the latest New York Times poll, say that the U.S. Ship of State has “pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track.” And they believe it is going to take a change of monumental proportions to get it back on course.