There are those who say that the election of Barack Obama shatters cultural barriers, destroys the distinction between "us" and "them," recasts how we look at others who might be different from us, whether it be race, ethnicity, language or physical ability.

I say to you that the old way of thinking is dead. That the limitations of the past have been replaced with the promise of the future. That where we once asked what a person could not do, we now ask what they can do.

Today -- this bright, promising day, and every day hereafter -- we do not judge a man by whether or not he can do a kegstand in a wheelchair, but by how much beer he can consume while doing it.

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