Apparently, some people (including Senator Obama himself) are becoming rather miffed that not every Democrat is prepared to support or vote for Senator Obama. (My own position remains the same: I will not vote for Senator McCain because I disagree with his policies; and at the moment I will not vote for Senator Obama primarily because I have serious objections to his health care plan and his proposals about withdrawing from Iraq, but also because, the process by which he has come to be the presumptive nominee has not been procedurally fair, in my opinion.

Senator Obama himself stood in the way of correcting inequity in the process, and even now as the presumptive Democratic nominee, who has consolidated his campaign with the D.N.C. over in Chicago, he has offered no assurances, made no insistence that the D.N.C. Convention in Denver be procedurally meticulous and transparent. As a Democrat, who knows that candidates up and down the Democratic ticket need a Party that people trust and respect, I know the D.N.C. must repair its legitimacy for the long term good of the country.

Meanwhile, somebody just told me that although my writings on this blog were once "laudable" now they are "divisive". Be that as it may, this got me thinking about my personal favorite "divisive" Americans. Who are yours?

Abraham Lincoln
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lucretia Mott
Cady Stanton
Sojourner Truth
Booker T. Washington
Earl Warren
Frederick Douglass
Levi Coffin
Rosa Parks
Robert Kennedy, Jr.
James Earl Chaney
Andrew Goodman
Michael Schwerner
Alexander Hamilton
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Linda Coffee
Sarah Weddington
Margaret Sanger