Barack Obama Announces His Run for the Presidency!

Against the background of two earlier posts,

Who Is Barack Obama?  And Does He Believe in God? (here), and

Barack Obama and Religion, con't (here),

I thought that Rick Garnett and other MOJ-readers would like to know that last night, on national television, right before the Monday night football game in which the 2007 Super Bowl Champion Chicago Bears extended their season record to an NFL-leading 11-2 [okay, okay, San Diego has an 11-2 record too, but who even knows that San Diego has a football team?], Barack Obama--whose home town is the great city of Chicago, where citizens are urged to "vote early and often"--announced his run for the presidency.  Somehow today's newspapers missed the story [I suspect Rick Garnett had something to do with that].  But now, right here on MOJ, you can see the announcement for yourself: