This is a diary about Barack Obama chronicling the events from September 17, 2008 through the passage of health care reform in March 2010. The perspective that I bring is from the lens of an almost seventy year old African American born and raised in the South as segregation breathed its last breath ... so I thought. The primary purpose of these musings was to provide an outlet, a cathartic relief from the daily machinations of an opposition that virulently and relentlessly attacked the first Black President of the United States of America. This was the feeble effort of an almost septuagenarian to 'defend' his President.