Forget One World, how about One Nation

One World is not just around the corner. Before we're One World, it would be nice to be One Nation.

From Bob Herbert's column yesterday in the NYT,

There was nothing subtle about that attempt to position Senator Obama as the Other, a candidate who might technically be American but who remained in some sense foreign, not sufficiently patriotic and certainly not one of us — the “us” being the genuine red-white-and-blue Americans who the ad was aimed at.

We've gotta lot of work to do.