A mythical place of literature and legend, Camelot as an ideal has always burned brightly in the hearts of those who value honor, duty and cherish a hope that the world can become a better place.

Today, Camelot is being revisited. Its name whispered once gain on the winds of change, it has been summoned back into existence by Barack Obama's ultimate triump aganist all odds.
The romance and idealism represented by this fictional kingdom had at its core man's aspiration to create a world where good succeeds aganist evil and a sense of brotherhood overcomes individual agendas.

Ineveitably prompting comparisons to the heroic remembrances of John F. Kennedy immortalized in the media, the Obama campaign has shared with America intimate portraits of President- Elect Obama and family. To a public starved for political role models who stand for something, Obama reflects a man whose quiet strength seamlessly blends with both his public and private personas. He is a leader, husband, father, brother and friend we respect and admire, someone to whom we can relate, his commodity uncommon in its essence.

The legend of camelot today, however, is unlike the one essentially created by JFK's widow in as many ways as it is. More of a resurgence of a belief in the possiblity of change, this version of camelot has resurrrected a feeling of optimism in people who previously pronounced it dead.
Camelot was a dream which inspired and motivated, a way of life which could be realised through reason, compassion, love and an understanding that we're all in this together 'rising and falling as one.'
With the election of Barack Obama, Camelot was reborn; people dared to dream agin that wrongs could be set right despite the dissapointments of the past and the challenges of the future.
 Like the 'brief shining moment that was known as Camelot'- the words taken from the Broadway musical of that same name- Barack Obama's election as president of the united states has signaled that man can live upto his
potential.
 In ways too varied to count, this moment in time will inspire others to live the dream that is Camelot. Regardless of his future accomplishments and failures, too, there can be no greater legacy left to the world by Barack Obama than the promise he kept to both those who believed in him and those who did not.
'Yes, we can! he said. And, yes we did.